Archive for 'Health'

Drug that steals women’s lives: It’s more addictive than heroin, with horrifying side-effects. So why, 50 years after its launch, is Valium still given to millions?

Posted 14 March 2013 | By | Categories: Health, Health Policy, Society, Uncategorized, Wellbeing | Comments Off

The Daily Mail 7 March 2013 Lois Rogers With her wedding day fast approaching, Baylissa Fredericks was increasingly worried about a nervous tic in her eyelid. She’d suffered the problem since early childhood, but was so concerned about it drawing attention to her for all the wrong reasons on her big day that she visited [...]

Male infertility Male infertility is soaring. So why do doctors keep blaming the woman when she can’t have a baby?

Posted 14 March 2013 | By | Categories: Health, Health Policy, Uncategorized, Wellbeing | Comments Off

The Daily Mail 5 December 2012 Lois Rogers To the outside world, Dennis Robinson has an enviable life. Happily married to an attractive woman with a comfortable home and a secure job, he is a father figure to his wife’s eight-year-old son. There is, however, a yawning chasm in Dennis’s life. He cannot father a [...]

Something fishy

Posted 22 October 2012 | By | Categories: Health, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Omega 3 supplements are said to help everything from your heart to your brain, but new research casts doubt on some of their claimed benefits The Sunday Times Published 7 October 2012 Lois Rogers LIKE lots of small boys, Charlie Watson was a handful. Although clearly bright, he would not sit still at school, he [...]

Buy one, get one free on breast ops

Posted 11 September 2012 | By | Categories: Health, Health Policy, Risk | Comments Off

The Sunday Times Published 15 July 2012 Lois Rogers COSMETIC surgeons are offering supermarket-style discounts for multiple breast enlargements, nose jobs and fat-removal operations in order to boost business. Mothers and daughters are among groups of women being attracted by “buy one, get one half-price” style offers. Online shopping carts and time-limited no-refund special offers [...]

‘Duracell’ pump gives new hope to heart patients

Posted 01 March 2012 | By | Categories: Health, Science | Comments Off

The Sunday Times Published: 26 February 2012. Lois Rogers. A young father has become the first person in Britain to benefit from a revolutionary heart pump designed to save thousands of people who would otherwise die waiting for a transplant. The tiny pump is the first intended for permanent use. Previous versions for the heart [...]

Anti-ageing cream ‘tricks’ skin into regenerating

Posted 01 January 2012 | By | Categories: Health | Comments Off

The Sunday Times Published: 01 January 2012. Lois Rogers. Cosmetics companies are preparing to unveil a new generation of anti-ageing treatments that mimic the actions of the molecules responsible for skin renewal. The first consumer product based on the emerging science of glycobiology – using sugars found naturally in the body to improve health – [...]

First diet pill that doesn´t make you ill

Posted 18 December 2011 | By | Categories: Health | Comments Off

The Sunday Times Published: 18 December 2011. Lois Rogers. Scientists are close to producing a drug that helps the obese lose weight by removing the pleasure of eating without bad side effects The pharmaceutical firm Pfizer is conducting clinical trials on a compound which, it hopes, will stop the obese from feeling hungry by mimicking [...]

Doctors shun hospital at the heart of care scandal

Posted 06 November 2011 | By | Categories: Health | Comments Off

The Sunday Times Published: 06 November 2011. Lois Rogers. This article is the subject of a legal complaint from Ivan Phair A 24-hour accident and emergency department is at risk as Stafford hospital struggles to recruit after one of the country´s worst medical scandals The hospital at the centre of one of the country´s worst [...]

Could we face the return of CJD? Experts fear it may lie dormant in thousands

Posted 01 November 2011 | By | Categories: Health, Science | Comments Off

The Daily Mail, Published 1 November 2011, Lois Rogers. Holly Mills was a lively teenager about to start university. But with her whole life ahead of her, she suddenly found herself in the grip of tragedy. Within the space of just a few months, the gregarious 18-year-old had become so severely brain damaged that she [...]