Valium is no cure for loneliness
No one can doubt that there is an epidemic of loneliness among older people in the UK. The most senior acute care doctor in England,...
Maya Fiennes’ Sunday Plan
Maya Fiennes is a well respected Kundalini yoga practitioner and instructor, based in Los Angeles. Trained as a classical pianist, Maya first found Kundalini Yoga...
Dear Doctor’s Diary: Gut Feeling
SHO medic Omar Hafeez-Bore is director/producer and founder of Short Sharp Productions. His honest, chatty one minute films capture the thoughts and opinions of young...
Why doctors should ask their fittest patients about their drinking habits
There is an assumption that someone who exercises regularly, indeed visits the gym four times a week, will have a healthy diet and not drink...
‘So when are you going to pop out some sprogs?’
I’m only 21 and having children is the last thing on my priority list. But lately, I’ve been forced to think about this issue more...
Antacids to fundoplication
A pharmacologist's view of progress in gastrointestinal medicine over the past 30 years. As a pharmacologist working in the Pharmaceutical industry for over thirty years,...
Mental health and depression
Depression affects around one in seven people during the course of their lifetime and is twice as common in women than men. ‘The reasons are...
Maya Fiennes’ Saturday Plan
Maya Fiennes is a well respected Kundalini yoga practitioner and instructor, based in Los Angeles. Trained as a classical pianist, Maya first found Kundalini Yoga...
The Proton Controversy – The legacy of Aysha King
Magic rays that cure all cancers or expensive vanity projects of no real clinical value? That has been the argument up to now when it...
The pros and cons of early screening for dementia
One of the most difficult issues about dementia, particularly in developed countries like the UK and the USA is whether we should attempt to diagnose...
