by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 20, 2020 | Diary Archive
Guess who must be making a fortune today? Supermarkets. Instead of pathetically wringing their hands and asking shoppers to think of others before panic buying, they should have put rationing in place. The BBC has published a heartfelt plea from a Nurse...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 20, 2020 | News
Shopping exposes us to germs Your local supermarket is doing everything possible to keep surfaces germ-free, but it’s other shoppers – and particularly their children – that are scattering these nasties around. Recent research has found that a...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 18, 2020 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
Enjoying life whilst self-isolating Self-isolating during the Coronavirus outbreak might provide just the incentive to make us exercise. And so improve our health. Going to the Gym is no longer possible; it might even have been a no-no for many, but we don’t...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 16, 2020 | Post Treatment
Is the NHS missing the point over mental health issues? During the Covid crisis, much high-profile attention has rightly been paid to mental health, with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge highlighting that we need to pay more attention to this problem. But...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 15, 2020 | News
What’s to like This latest health scare might just make us a cleaner and healthier nation. Anyone who has shuddered as others come out of the loo not bothering to wash their hands, will understand what I mean. All of a sudden people now understand cleanliness...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 8, 2020 | News
Congratulations to Royal Berkshire Hospital It may have been founded in 1836, but this hospital is thoroughly modern when it comes to understanding what patients need. When the first sad Coronavirus fatality happed here, their Press Office, unlike many NHS press...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 6, 2020 | Post Treatment
Fun Ideas to lighten the current Doom and Gloom The American website Verywell has health and wellness information provided by a team of 120 health experts, and reviewed by board-certified physicians. It claims to reach 17 million US unique users each month....
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 1, 2020 | News
This graphic from the Daily Express gives the information clearly – and for those of us who are appalled at the dithering ‘headless chicken’ attitude of Government, provides clear information. Obviously, those undergoing cancer treatment should be...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 26, 2020 | Post Treatment
What do you get when a psychologist gets breast cancer? At last, we get a book that contests the assumption that, after cancer treatment, we will simply ‘get better’ or ‘move on’. The book, ‘Living with the long-term effects of...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 24, 2020 | Post Treatment
What we should do now I suspect most of us do what’s mentioned here, but it’s reassuring to have confirmation from the eminent Dana-Farber hospital Item No 8 is something that the NHS tends to ‘forget’, but this could be a reminder to push for...
