Creative Medicine

Creative Medicine

A sprinkling of luck, a passion for what she does and female intuition is the recipe for success for one of fashion industry’s most successful icons. Amanda Wakeley has dressed the late Princess Diana, Angelina Jolie and Scarlet Johansson, amongst many other...
HRT Cancer Risk

HRT Cancer Risk

  Hormone replacement therapy for less than five years increases ovarian cancer risk | Cancer Research UK Ovarian cancer is slightly more common among women who take hormone replacement therapy (HRT), even for short amounts of time, according to the largest...
HRT Cancer Risk

1 in 2 people will get cancer

One in two people will develop cancer at some point in their lives, according to Cancer Research UK published in the British Journal of Cancer. “Cancer is primarily a disease of old age, with more than 60 per cent of all cases diagnosed in people aged over 65....
NHS in the Frontline

NHS in the Frontline

In the last few days it has been astonishing the amount of press coverage on the NHS and it difficult choices it faces. Here are some of the big stories profiled in the national media. A&E crisis exposed: the real pressures facing the NHS and the valiant doctors...
‘Complaint doctors face suicide risk’

‘Complaint doctors face suicide risk’

UK doctors subject to complaints procedures are at risk of becoming depressed and suicidal, according to research. Those referred to the General Medical Council (GMC), seem to be most at risk of mental ill health, the research published in the online journal BMJ Open...