Following a spate of drive by acid attacks on men in East London, there are calls for tighter laws to penalise those people who use acid as a weapon. Put your hands up to your face and carefully feel your eyelids, followed by your cheeks and then the tip of your nose. What you can […]
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Over my career I have spent many thousands of hours in A&E departments working on shift to care for sick or hurt children. I, along with the medical team, do my best to care for the physical wellbeing of each and every patient that comes through the door. I find it hard to believe, therefore, […]
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So I am out of the loop. Out of touch with maternity care in the UK you could say. After all, I do not practise medicine in the UK. I trained in England, my country of birth, before being relocated, courtesy of my husband’s job, to a lecturer’s post in obstetrics in Hong Kong. That […]
Iridology Practitioners look into the iris of the eye to detect health problems throughout the entire body. Disease can show up on the iris as spots, flecks or dark streaks. Texture and colour indicate the individual’s general state of health. Generally speaking the upper organs, including the brain, are at the top of the iris, […]
Lately rugby seems to be getting some very disappointing negativity and bad PR. First concussion and now banning school kids from tackling. What will these people think to ban or downgrade next? Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t have issues regarding the safeguarding and welfare of players. When it comes to concussion and implementing […]
Rugby builds character, its supporters say. Whether true or not, there is no research showing that tackling in rugby is vital to this: nor is their research showing that rugby builds character better than other sports. One thing we do know, scientifically, however is that full-contact rugby leads to a great deal of unnecessary injuries, including whiplash, neurological damage, paralysis […]
If it was up to me, there would be no Botox parties and nobody would be able to buy fillers over the internet. As a fully qualified cosmetic nurse working in the South West, I see too many patients who have had disastrous experiences at the hands of amateurs with no training who just want to make some fast […]
https://youtu.be/IMybhqoZ75I Emma Thompson and her son Tindy Agaba raise awareness of TB. The film, commissioned by City Hall and Public Health England was launched on World Tuberculosis Day. We’re aiming to raise public awareness of TB and the efforts to prevent and treat this disease. In 2014 there were 2,572 cases reported in London […]
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Dumfries nurse Michael Shek spent six months at Bentiu camp in South Sudan, where people have fled for protection from the violence engulfing the country working with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). MSF is an international humanitarian organisation that provides medical care where it is needed most. Since 1971, MSF has helped millions of people while […]
A generation ago, if a cancer had spread to someone’s liver, it was considered a death sentence. Today, that is no longer the case. In our hospital, nearly half of patients who undergo an operation to remove tumours from the liver, are still alive five years later. The huge shift has come about because of […]