Acne, which is probably one of the most common skin conditions affecting the general population, especially teenagers and young adults, can have a profound impact on the quality of life and overall wellbeing of patients socially and emotionally. However, it is important to not presume that this is only for people with severe symptoms, as those with milder disease […]
Mindfulness, which is essentially meditation rebranded for the squeamish, is embedded in the history of Indic consciousness traditions such as the Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists going back thousands of years. Essentially a journey of self-discovery, ‘mindfulness’ is a word created to make meditation palatable to a new generation of people who don’t want to be […]
Parents were once encouraged by health experts to avoid giving their weaned babies certain ‘high risk’ foods to reduce the risk of their offspring developing potentially life-threatening food allergies. Many parents in the US in the 1980s and 1990s, advised by the American Academy of Paediatrics avoided giving babies cow’s milk for a year after birth, eggs […]
Misdiagnosis of acute illnesses and chronic conditions is the largest cause of preventable medical error and accounts for over 40 per cent of medical malpractice claims in Britain. The National Patient Safety Agency does keep figures of diagnostic errors made in NHS hospitals but underreporting is common. In 2014, the NHS paid out £194 million in […]
Midwifery has a very important role to play in helping to solve some really big problems that affect women and their babies around the world. It is estimated that nearly 300,000 women die every year during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after. About 2.6 million women suffer stillbirths, and almost 3 million infants die in the […]
Test to see if you’ll get statins side-effects – available 2020 Eight million people take statins in the UK, which help lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart attack, but many suffer side effects. A major study of more than 100,000 people who’d been prescribed statins from 2000 to 2008 found that 17 percent […]
Rebecca Wallersteiner Reviews Flora, Botanist Dr Sandra Knapp’s exquisitely illustrated new book explores the history and health-giving properties of plants and the intrepid explorers who discovered them In her beautifully written new book Flora, botanist Dr Sandra Knapp draws on the rich archives of the Natural History Museum to illustrate the history and health-giving properties of […]
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Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating disease which occurs when tissue deep inside the lungs becomes thick and scarred. This scarring, known a fibrosis, makes it harder to breathe and get sufficient oxygen into the bloodstream. Although there is a great deal which we don’t know about it, including the reason why it happens, we […]
Would any doctor continue to prescribe a drug which they had been told would benefit 20 per cent of patients with a specific illness, once the truth was revealed to be around 7 per cent, only one percent better than no treatment at all? You’d have to hope not and that concerned and angry doctors […]
Cancer of all types is a growing cause of disease in low and middle-income countries and smoking tobacco is a major contributing factor to many cancers. Smoking is also a prime cause of poor health and chronic lung diseases like emphysema. Unlike in countries with higher GDP, there may be poor medical facilities to diagnose […]