Eczema is a beast. This inflammatory, dry skin condition, aka dermatitis, affects millions of people from babyhood to old age, causing unbearable, often constant itching that leads to ferocious scratc...
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We hadn’t seen each other for ten years but, as my dear friend Ben remarked, ‘it felt like no time at all’. He is an old friend both in age (84) and how long we’ve known each other – about 40 years. W...
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Click through to a site called Medical News Today and you might not expect to find an article headed ‘What to know about anxiety and drawing’. Unless, that is, you are one of the many millions of peop...
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Factoid: about 71% of the earth’s surface is covered with water and, in a neat bit of evolutionary symmetry, the percentage of water in the human body varies from 45-75% according to age, gender...
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Over 40 years ago, I first understood that listening could be as important as talking in helping someone – in fact even more so. I was a recovering alcoholic in AA (the 12-step programme Alcohol...
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This article first appeared in The TelegraphMedicines do people a lot of good but they can also cause harm, according to the recent National Overprescribing Review, which found that 10% of drugs are u...
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