When we think of healthcare, I expect the majority of us would think of broken arms, twisted ankles, or the dreaded winter flu that threatens our physical health. Of course, this is a fair enough assumption as hospitals and GPs primarily exist to treat physical ailments that might befall us, and the primary job of […]
In a now much-shared clip from a recent Daily Politics broadcast, two school girls were seen to take the veteran reporter Andrew Neil to task about the sugar tax budget announcement, whilst he fought for the public right to ‘break the rules’. The girls eloquently fielded success statistics regarding the implementation of seat belts in […]
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The profuse collection of information available to individuals on the Internet lays challenge to the need for International Societies. However, nothing can be further from the truth. There are enormous advantages to direct face-to-face links between clinicians with similar specialist interests, both as individuals and in groups. Listening to and questioning experts in your field […]
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Fertility treatments that are available today would have seemed like science fiction a few years ago. ‘Think how far we have come since IVF was developed 30 years ago. Back then, people said doctors were playing God. Today, 60,000 babies are born using IVF techniques every year in the UK,’ says Susan Seenam, chief executive […]
Until recently, agoraphobia was defined as a fear of open spaces. It now also includes several other related fears such as a fear of entering shops, fear of crowds and public places, or of travelling alone on trains, buses or aeroplanes. It also includes the anxiety associated with being unable to reach a place of […]
In Scotland, scientists are looking into claims that adding lithium to water supplies could help our mental wellbeing. Lithium occurs naturally in many water sources in Scotland, leaching out from volcanic rock at very low concentration, as well as in other regions around the globe. When it occurs naturally in tap water, a typical daily […]
You might think that a tipple after a long shift is going to help you unwind and de-stress, but don’t think that alcohol is sleep tonic. According to a Sleep Council study, as many as 7.9 million people have used alcohol to help them get to sleep at night. Although alcohol helps you get to […]
SHO medic Omar Hafeez-Bore is director/producer and founder of Short Sharp Productions. His honest, chatty one minute films capture the thoughts and opinions of young UK doctors and nurses. […]
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Technology from the US could mean that someone could change their eyecolour permanently using a special type of laser. Dr Gregg Homer, who has a PhD in biology and is ‘an inventor rather than a medical doctor’ in his own words, is founder of the California-based company Stroma Medical that has patented the controversial technique. […]
Dementia is an issue society can’t escape. According to the Alzheimer’s Society by 2050, the 30pc of people over 65 predicted to develop dementia, will have grown from 800,000 today to 1.7million sufferers. If you then count family members caring for elderly relatives, the illness will directly and indirectly affect more than half of us. […]