Fight pain with food
Certain foods are thought to have natural pain relieving properties. And foods don’t have the unpleasant side effects that many pain medications may have. Here...
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Pills for pain
Chronic pain is one of the major health concerns in the UK. According to the National Pain Audit, published in 2011, over 7.8 million people...
Why I chose pilates
Many years ago, I had a herniated lumber disc in my back which was excruciating painful. I was a school teacher living in Holland at...
Dying Well?
In an age where medicine can do more than ever before to delay dying, is death sometimes now seen as failure in the medical profession?...
Medical Marijuana: Should cannabis be prescribed or not?
In the UK it is estimated there are around three million cannabis users and about one million of those use cannabis for medical reasons. At...
Fear
Fear is a basic human emotion which causes a pyschological and physiological response in the body known as ‘fight or flight.’ It occurs as a...
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...
