The globalisation of medicine

Globalisation and the ever-shrinking world means that we now have access to the medical wisdom and traditions from all over our planet. What we can learn is...

A Modern Apothecary Garden

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food – Hippocrates. What we eat is the most important way to prevent disease, so nutrition...

East meets West in physiotherapy

As the largest acupuncture organisation in the UK, we represent 6,500 physiotherapists who are interested in integrating Western evidence-based acupuncture into mainstream physiotherapy for the...

Tap water for that feel good factor

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...

Alcohol won’t shift insomnia

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...

Dear Future Doctor

Produced and performed by Stanford medical students! Stanford University School of Medicine's music video parody on Meghan Trainor's "Dear Future Husband."

A Sabbatical in Italy

Rigoletto was the catalyst. It had been 12 years since I last lived in Italy and sitting in Covent Garden listening to this opera, I...

Physician, heal thyself?

I became a doctor influenced by my late father, a single-handed general practitioner.  He, like many doctors in the 1960’s came as a foreigner to...