Around half of all women and one in five men suffer from low libido at some point in their lives. Here we look at some ways to boost desire and enjoy a healthy romantic life. Prescription drugs According to Sid Dajani, community pharmacist and spokesperson for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, there are literally dozens of OTC […]
More than eight out of 10 NHS hospitals in England are not following the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines to test all bowel cancer patients at the time of their diagnosis for Lynch syndrome, with a mere 22 hospitals (17%) following the guidelines. A freedom of Information request submitted by Bowel […]
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Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer among women in the UK, but because diagnosis is often made when the disease is more advanced, 5-year survival rates are only 46 per cent overall. The good news that this soars to a 90 per cent 5 year survival rate when tumours are detected early. When […]
Early diagnosis is a major focus of the work of Target Ovarian Cancer and we take a three-pronged approach to try and ensure that more women are diagnosed at an early stage when the cancer is still very treatable. Over 7000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer every year in the UK. Although fewer than […]
WHEN it comes to fertility treatment – specifically IVF – there are fine margins between successful and unsuccessful outcomes – between creating life or failing to bring one into existence. So, against this emotionally-charged backdrop, is it not wise to always strive to tip the balance in your favour, even when the methods employed might […]
A new class of experimental drugs reduces hot flushes in menopausal women by almost three-quarters in just three days. The treatment, tested by scientists at Imperial College London, also reduces the severity of hot flushes by over a third within three days of taking it. The research, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Institute for […]
Unraveling the secrets to ‘sustainable behavioural change’ (SBC) is like searching for the Holy Chalice. In order to understand SBC a little more, we must first recognize that we humans are running on autopilot for around half of our waking hours. Here’s an interesting correlation: – ‘People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking […]
ME is not a very useful term. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis derives from Ancient Greek. Myalgic meaning painful muscles and fibres and Encephalomyelitis meaning inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. Those labelled with ME rarely have actual evidence of brain or nerve inflammation, so it is simply a label and not a very descriptive one at […]
From a GP’s perspective, I would much rather that a patient made an appointment with me to discuss their concerns about ovarian cancer than decide to wait and see. Make an appointment, even if you think it is nothing. The issue is that bloating is a very common complaint from women of all ages, and […]
People around the world could benefit from new vaccines to target deadly diseases such as Ebola, Plague and Zika, as the UK Government announces a further £22 million for new vaccine research, bringing the total UK funding to £71 million. The funding, which will target some of the world’s deadliest diseases, is announced as the […]
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