You Need To Know About Blood Clots
This week’s headlines shouted about the increased risk of abnormal blood clotting – venous thromboembolism (VTE) – in the lungs of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units. A key trigger seems to be...
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Editorial - Sarah Stacey
Helping Hands With Gloves In A Bottle
When repeated intensive hand washing became mandatory in March, a friend phoned me in distress about her very dry hands, which had become red, chapped and sore. It wasn’t just her but also her...
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Cancer Charity Look Good Feel Better Launches Virtual Workshops
Look Good Feel Better (LGFB) is the beauty and fragrance industry’s flagship initiative, organising free workshops in over 140 hospitals and cancer centres nationwide to help people with ca...
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Is It Worth Giving Up Gluten?
Almost any conventional nutritional guidelines will lay down the law that whole grains should be a staple of a healthy diet. But for a significant number of people, grains are a problem. The vill...
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What To Do About Dental Problems
If you have toothache, seeing your dentist face to face is impossible now, due to the risk of transmission of corona virus. However, you may be able to consult a dentist online as practises are u...
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Keeping Calm In The Storm
For the vast majority of us, the corona virus pandemic is our first experience of being on what’s now referred to as ‘a war footing’. And rather like bombs dropping in the Blitz...
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