Restrictive diets
When it comes to restrictive diets for cancer patients, I am sceptical but tolerant. I’m not averse to patients trying anything – within reason. Two of...
Depression drugs don’t wear off
Over a period of years, between 10 and 20 per cent of patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder who are taking medication at a maintenance...
AMR and the importance of finding new ways to prevent and treat infections
Jim O’Neill, chair of the UK Government’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, has today called for vaccines and alternative approaches to be used more widely in...
How much is polypharmacy a necessary evil?
A few years ago, I and some GP colleagues – Tony Avery from Nottingham University, and Rupert Payne from Cambridge University – were asked to...
Post Polio Syndrome: What is it, and why does it matter?
Poliomyelitis, or Polio, as it is more commonly known, is one of the world’s best-known diseases. Having famously been contracted by Frida Kahlo, Neil Young...
Scans reveal babies of mothers with gestational diabetes have more body fat
Results of our research have shown that babies born to mothers with gestational diabetes have more body fat at two months of age compared to...
The headache epidemic
Headaches are almost a universal complaint - only around three per cent of the population don't get headaches in a lifetime. But they come in many different...
A medical box
As a personal trainer for many years, I have had many clients who worked in the medical profession. Doctors and nurses have particular demands on...
The biopsy debate
Many people with suspected cancer undergo biopsies to diagnose their condition; however, there are growing concerns that biopsies carry their own risks and may even...
Major European funded study to investigate nature of pregnancy
Every single human is the product of a pregnancy, yet pregnancy has not been a traditional focus in philosophy. My study will investigate important, but...
