[youtube id=”O0RRgC8acDY” width=”750″ height=”422″ position=”left”] The Hoverstretcher. One of the less brilliant ideas dreamed up by medical scientists in 1961. Developed in collaboration with the Royal Army Medical Corps this death trap failed to make it into everyday use. […]
We would all like to see the end of terminal cancer. A non-survivable brain cancer killed my mother in a few short weeks. Last month, I said goodbye to a friend who died of a rare kind of blood cancer when she was just 55. Another friend has been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, […]
Maya Fiennes is a well respected Kundalini yoga practitioner and instructor, based in Los Angeles. Trained as a classical pianist, Maya first found Kundalini Yoga when she was looking for something to help calm her pre-performance nerves. She tried other forms of Yoga, but it was Kundalini Yoga that gave her the key to relaxing […]
Zika, which has been linked to a huge increase in the number of babies born with small heads in Brazil, may be the scariest virus around just now, but it’s actually going to be much easier to tackle and eradicate than flu, which has managed to evade our best attempts to wipe it out for decades. Every […]
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I don’t have any intrinsic objection to robotic prostatectomy – in fact I’m trained in it, just as I’m trained in open and laparoscopic (‘hands on’ keyhole) prostate surgery. The cause of my reticence towards robotic surgery relates more to unnecessary cost and unrealistic expectations than to anything else. The steep growth of robotic prostatectomy […]
In my view, robotic surgery is superior to an open radical prostatectomy. For one thing, you get a much better view of the pelvis with a robotic prostatectomy and there is less bleeding. There is also less damage to surrounding tissues and a quicker recovery time. I advise men that it is important to ask […]
Maya Fiennes is a well respected Kundalini yoga practitioner and instructor, based in Los Angeles. Trained as a classical pianist, Maya first found Kundalini Yoga when she was looking for something to help calm her pre-performance nerves. She tried other forms of Yoga, but it was Kundalini Yoga that gave her the key to relaxing […]
“Well, Mrs Dow,” said the curly haired, highly recommended child psychologist from Harley Street, as he sat in my kitchen – “you’ve got a problem. Your daughter is mentally handicapped.” Our daughter Annie was 3 years and 4 months old at the time and still not speaking. Urged on by a concerned friend, I had called in […]
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Obesity generally takes years to develop and hence is usually a disease of the middle-aged. Children do, of course, become obese, but any child with severe obesity should first be investigated for an underlying genetic, medical or psychological cause. Sometimes these can be corrected with great efficacy. Failing this the next steps would be to […]
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It might seem bizarre but I have to fight battles to treat my patients. Yes of course I am fighting for NHS funding like so many colleagues; but I also have to fight against the often ill-informed views of society and even some in the medical fraternity; this is because I run an adolescent surgical […]
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