Page 350 – The Hippocratic Post

July 5, 2019

Call for Green Burial Corridors Alongside Roads, Railways and Country Footpaths

A leading public health expert is calling for a strategic initiative to develop green burial corridors alongside major transport routes because British graveyards and cemeteries...

June 25, 2019

Mouth Care Matters in Older People

Our population is ageing as the health care workforce is ever more stretched; is mouth care being sacrificed on the altar of busyness? The scale...

June 24, 2019

Successful Support for Parents of Anorexia patients

Anorexia nervosa is one of the most severe psychiatric diseases in female adolescents. Its origin is co-conditional on a series of biological and genetic factors...

June 19, 2019

Diabetes – The Facts

Diabetes – the facts One in 15 people in the UK have diabetes. This includes one million people who have Type 2 but haven’t yet been...

June 19, 2019

Psychiatric Assessments Creating Depression and Suicide among Trans Patients

Around forty per cent of transgender people have attempted to take their own lives at some point in time. That’s a shocking, harrowing statistic, supplied...

June 18, 2019

ADHD Drug not linked to Psychotic Symptoms

New research provides reassurance that the most common ADHD drug is not linked to psychotic symptoms The most commonly prescribed ADHD drug methylphenidate does not...

June 18, 2019

Epilepsy and Aluminium

There is a long (and perhaps regrettable) history of the injection of aluminium salts into brain tissue in animal (including primates) models of human epilepsy....

June 17, 2019

RCOT launch ‘Adaptations without delay’ report

The Royal College of Occupational therapists (RCOT) has launched a new guide, ‘Adaptations without delay’ which will help speed up the process of delivering adaptations...

June 17, 2019

End of Anonymity for Fertility Donors

Campaign group PET’s free-to-attend #EndOfAnonymity debate will hear from an international panel of experts on how the availability and popularity of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing...

June 17, 2019

Love your Lungs

Dr Nick Hopkinson – medical director at the British Lung Foundation This Love your lungs week (17-23 June) the British Lung Foundation (BLF) wants to...