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Bring on the Witch Doctor
Your GP surgery is changing Health Minister Matt Hancock has announced funding for 20,000 physios, pharmacists,paramedics and anyone else they can think of, to provide to back-up to GPs. We are even promised that GPs will provide fun and games with referrals to Zumba...
Neuropathy – the unknown condition
Winter aggravates this side effect Neuropathy causes hands and feet to feel numb, tingly and painful, especially in winter. In the summer, my legs can just give up! A few years ago, I lived with the hope that peripheral neuropathy would disappear over time. Although I...
MD Anderson
John Mendelson Most cancer patients in Britain will never have heard of John Mendelsohn, president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center from 1996 to 2011. But cancer patients all over the world should be grateful for the work he oversaw at this...
Don’t give up if your New Year Resolution was to lose weight
Losing weight is probably the most popular New Year Resolution, so why aren't you losing this? Before you re-stock 'low fat' foods, perhaps you should check for hidden calories Fruit is a 'goodie', but even these have different calorie counts:- Nutrionists tell us we...
Don’t fob patients off who can help with NHS
Time-wasting exercise? Brace yourselves! Yet another plan is beng hatched by the gurus in the Dept. Health determined to undermine any slight improvements hard-working NHS staff have managed to sort out. They just can't leave well alone, but are about to announce...
Re-cycling after Christmas
My first Christmas in the country since I was a child produced two delightful surprises. First one was on Christmas Eve, I had woken up to a painful, puffy eye, the long-term consequences of Tamoxifen treatment which sometimes returns, and had chosen that day to...
Revised ‘deaths’
An enquiry has found Jeremy Hunt’s statement to the House of Commons in May that nearly 500,000 women had not been invited for breast camaancer screening, and that 270 may have died needlessly, was based on wrong advice. Thousands of women were rightly concerned about...
C(r)apita boobs again
An additional 3,591 women have not received information about NHS cervical cancer screening. Capita, (or as Private Eye rightly calls them Crapita) contracted to send out screening invitations, have boobed AGAIN. Yet another administrative error! When will the...
Cancer drugs can give us skin problems – even years after treatment
Skin is our largest organ So why doesn't the NHS help us look after it? I eep on banging on about looking after it, but if we don't, germs and nasties can enter through the cracks and cause untold harm. So make look after it - pamper with a purpose. When my cancer...
Cancer Survivors agree what Research they want
Something beng done to help Survivors Surprising result for UK Top 10 research priorities Helping people live better with and beyond cancer Cancer survivors want more spent on researching handling long -term side effects https://youtu.be/CzOyW2mw6Ko When a call...