by Verite Reily Collins | Jun 10, 2019 | News
Clifton Hampden Surgery PPG has asked me to be Guest Editor of the Newsletter, and as a newcomer from London (returning to where I grew up) I am delighted to do this. After the mega-surgeries we suffer in London, sometimes having to wait 5 weeks to see a doctor, the...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jun 10, 2019 | News
ASCO REPORT I have reason to be very grateful to this body; in typical American fashion they were very generous with providing information when I suspected I had developed Neuropathy as a side effect of cancer drugs – and my doctors wouldn’t admit it....
by Verite Reily Collins | Jun 2, 2019 | News
The silent Disease Loneliness underlies many of today’s ills; particularly for cancer survivors. Once finished with treatment, the world around expects us to resume our previous life-style. But for many survivors, this ain’t gonna happen. ...
by Verite Reily Collins | May 9, 2019 | News
As if people living with diabetes didn’t have enough health concerns, here’s another- A study at Cornell University of US shows there is an increased risk of metastatic cancer New research at this top US university points to a possible explanation for...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 28, 2019 | News
Fell down (as one does) ar home, and was eventually carted off to the local hospital – John Radcliffe in Oxford. Had a comfortable wait on a trolley – I’d grabbed a good book to read – before I was wheeled off to X-ray. On the way back, my...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 26, 2019 | News
Where the NHS excels Anyone who has attended an NHS conference recently knows you just can’t beat them when it comes to back-slapping and self-congratulation. But here is a video of a brave nurse who stood up to the big chiefs at an NHS Board meeting, and dared...
