When it comes to restrictive diets for cancer patients, I am sceptical but tolerant. I’m not averse to patients trying anything – within reason. Two of my patients, on their own initiative, are using the alkaline diet, which claims to halt the spread of cancer by making the body fluids more alkaline, and they both tell […]
Over a period of years, between 10 and 20 per cent of patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder who are taking medication at a maintenance dose will have a relapse. This is despite the fact that they are stating that they are taking their medication as normal. The process typically happens gradually, although it may […]
This is a type of personality disorder, which is marked out by the sufferers need for constant attention and exaggerated show of emotion. It tends to occur more in women than men. Individuals with HPD are lively, dramatic, enthusiastic, and flirtatious. They may be inappropriately sexually provocative, express strong emotions with an impressionistic style, and […]
Jim O’Neill, chair of the UK Government’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, has today called for vaccines and alternative approaches to be used more widely in healthcare and agriculture as an alternative to antibiotics in the fight against drug-resistant “superbugs”. There has been much in the media recently about our currently available antibiotics becoming less effective, […]
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A few years ago, I and some GP colleagues – Tony Avery from Nottingham University, and Rupert Payne from Cambridge University – were asked to do a review of polypharmacy by the King’s Fund. Polypharmacy had always been looked on disparagingly through my training in medicine and my subsequent work as a GP. It was […]
Poliomyelitis, or Polio, as it is more commonly known, is one of the world’s best-known diseases. Having famously been contracted by Frida Kahlo, Neil Young and even Franklin Roosevelt, Polio was endemic throughout much of the 20th Century. However, one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in history has all but seen off Polio, with […]
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Results of our research have shown that babies born to mothers with gestational diabetes have more body fat at two months of age compared to babies born to healthy mothers. The study used MRI scanning to measure body fat in 86 babies – we took these readings shortly after birth, and again when the babies […]
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Headaches are almost a universal complaint – only around three per cent of the population don’t get headaches in a lifetime. But they come in many different guises from minor twinges to full-scale migraines which can last for days. According to the World Health Organisation, chronic migraine has become a major health concern globally. By the time someone has […]
As a personal trainer for many years, I have had many clients who worked in the medical profession. Doctors and nurses have particular demands on them which I take into account when I am working out their fitness goals. The three pillars of any plan for medics is helping them build stamina, pack exercise into […]
Many people with suspected cancer undergo biopsies to diagnose their condition; however, there are growing concerns that biopsies carry their own risks and may even seed cancer cells into surrounding tissue. A biopsy is the removal of a sample of tissue from the body for examination under a microscope to assist diagnosis. The type of […]