Resistance to antibiotics Over my surgical career, I have seen a real change in the way we use antibiotics. Initially, we doled them out at every opportunity, not just to treat, but in the hope of preventing infection from surgery. Today, the situation is very different. We are seeing more and more people resistant to […]
World Heart Rhythm Week (June 6th – 12th) is dedicated to promoting the awareness of how to Detect, Protect, Correct and Perfect all heart rhythm disorders. This year World Heart Rhythm Week falls between 6th to 12th June. Since 2004, when Arrhythmia Alliance successfully lobbied for a new Chapter on Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death […]
More and more people are running or setting up small healing or therapeutic businesses but the vast majority are failing to make enough to live on. I have spent over 20 years earning a living as a spiritual healer, teacher and writing books and can offer ten tips on how others can do the same. […]
Is TV doctoring become the modern day equivalent of the Victorian freak show? And are doctors who become presenters on shows like Embarrassing Bodies and Jeremy Kyle’s Emergency Room dishonouring the sacred principles enshrined in the Hippocratic Oath? These were some of the questions raised in a heated debate last week at the inaugural London […]
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64 per cent of children under 5 in South Africa go to bed hungry every night. The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 2015 revealed that 12 million South Africans are “food insecure”. My interest with food gardens began when my role with Miss Earth allowed me to travel and I witnessed the dire […]
The 1st of June marks the beginning of motor neuron disease awareness month. This year MND Association’s campaign is called Shortened Stories and focuses on the rapid progression of MND; on the lives cut short and stories left unfinished. Robert, 34, was born in Leeds and now lives in North West London with his wife Sariet and […]
Justin Healy, a British doctor from Anglesey in Wales, vlogs from Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he’s running an Ebola survivor clinic. […]
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Hundreds of thousands of older people are facing ‘double whammy’ of unmet care needs and being chronically lonely. New research from Age UK shows just how tough life is for hundreds of thousands of older people with care needs who are struggling on without any help. Fresh analysis finds that if you are an older […]
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Is your beginning worth more than your end? Helplessness defines both ends of life: our need to be washed, fed, carried (or hoisted) in a world where nothing makes much sense, we struggle to be understood, and where human touch brings special comfort. Why then do we care so much more for our newborns than […]
Patient safety is an essential component of healthcare quality and has become a topic of increasing focus at all levels of the health system, domestically and internationally. In the UK, the focus on patient safety has never been stronger. In the past five years, a number of important milestones – the NHS Constitution; the Five […]