Beware of bilharzia
Thinking of travelling to Africa for work or pleasure this summer? Better read up schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia or snail fever, a disease caused by a...
From mouthwash to medicine: innovation can come from unexpected places
As a physician who started out in geriatrics, I did not expect to end up researching and developing medicine for mothers and newborns. But as...
MND Awareness Month
I will never forget my first day at the Association office in Northampton in autumn 1996. I walked in and the relatively low number of...
Antibiotics…helping hand or harmful?
Resistance to antibiotics Over my surgical career, I have seen a real change in the way we use antibiotics. Initially, we doled them out at...
Arrhythmia Alliance
World Heart Rhythm Week (June 6th – 12th) is dedicated to promoting the awareness of how to Detect, Protect, Correct and Perfect all heart rhythm...
A Healer’s Life is Gruelling
More and more people are running or setting up small healing or therapeutic businesses but the vast majority are failing to make enough to live...
London Press Club and Hippocratic Post Debate
Is TV doctoring become the modern day equivalent of the Victorian freak show? And are doctors who become presenters on shows like Embarrassing Bodies and...
Food Security in South Africa
64 per cent of children under 5 in South Africa go to bed hungry every night. The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 2015...
VLOG | Running an Ebola survivor clinic in Sierra Leone
Justin Healy, a British doctor from Anglesey in Wales, vlogs from Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he's running an Ebola survivor clinic.
Older people face ‘double whammy’ of unmet needs
Hundreds of thousands of older people are facing 'double whammy' of unmet care needs and being chronically lonely. New research from Age UK shows just...
