Medical Conditions, Procedures & Prevention

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'Bashful Bladder'

19th-Century View of Fever

Beginner's Guide to Feng Shui

Cynic's Guide to Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Few Tips on Oral Hygiene

Gluten-free Diet

Hot Toddy Cold Remedy

Short Guide to Hypnotherapy

AIDS HIV - Visible Features

AIDS and HIV [5]

Accident and Emergency Departments

Acupuncture

Adenoids

Ageing

Ailurophilia Gone Bad: A New Mental Illness?

Albinism

Alcohol Abuse

Alexander James Jude Lynn

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

Allergic Feminine Irritation (AFI)

Alopecia

Alternative Options for Menstruation

Alzheimer's Disease

Anaemia

Aneurysm

Anosmia

Anxiety Disorders [3]

Asthma

Astrocytoma

Baby Massage

Basics of Rolling Naked in the Snow

Being a Blood Donor in the UK

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Bloom's Syndrome

Body Odour

Bone Diseases

Bone Marrow Donors - a Personal Experience

Breast Cancer

Burning Mouth Syndrome

Candida Control

Cardiac Nuclear Medicine Scan

Cataracts and their treatment

Cellulitis

Cellulitis - a Personal Account

Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838 - 1883) - 'Tom Thumb'

Chickenpox and Shingles

Child Actors

Cigars

Cisplatin

Clinical Practice [3]

Coeliac Disease

Coldsores and Herpes Simplex

Colonoscopy

Colour Blindness

Congenital Hydrocephalus

Consuming Alcohol During Pregnancy, The Consequences.

Conversion Disorders

Crohn's Disease

Crystals

Cystoscopy

DNA Fingerprinting

DNR or CPR - a Difficult Decision

Dealing with Pre-menstrual Syndrome and Period Pain

Death

Decompression Sickness

Deja Vu

Dental Fillings

Depression and College Students

Depression and Mood Disorders [5]

Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip

Differences Between a Cold and the 'Flu

Different Approaches to Treating Mental Illnesses

Disability

Diseases of the Tonsils

Donating Blood in the USA

Down's Syndrome

Dyslexia

E coli - Friend or Foe?

Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery - An Overview

Eating and Digestive Disorders [7]

Ectopic Pregnancy

Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823)

Elaine Rivis Anderson - The Little Girl In The Cemetery

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Electrocution

Endometrial Cancer

Endometriosis and Adenomyosis

Epilepsy

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Fabry Disease

Fibromyalgia

First Steps to Survival in an Inflatable Liferaft

Fistulae

Gestational Diabetes

Giving Up Smoking

Gout - The Affliction of Kings

Graves' Disease (Hyperthyroidism)

Guillain-Barré Syndrome

HM and the Seahorse - a Story of Memory Discovery

Haematuria (Blood in the Urine)

Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn

Haemorrhoids

Hangover Cures

Having A Barium Enema

Having a Cervical Smear Test in the UK

Health Advice for Travellers

Henrietta Lacks and the Origin of HeLa Cells

Hiccups

High Altitude Sickness

Hives - the Causes, Symptoms and Treatments

Homeopathy - a Sceptical View

How Best to Cope with Bereavement

How to Call for an Emergency Ambulance in the UK

How to Get a Doctor's Attention

How to Guide a Blind Person

How to Lose and Control Weight

How to Make a Basic First Aid Kit for the Home

How to Perform Artificial Respiration and/or CPR on Your Cat

How to Take an Inpatient History (UK)

Hunter Syndrome

Hydatidiform Moles in Pregnancy

Hydrotherapy and Aquarobics

Hypergraphia

Hypermobility Syndrome

Hypnosis

Hypochondria (aka Hypochondriasis)

Hypoxia, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Drowning

Hysterectomy

Ichthyosis Foetalis and Harlequin Babies

Ill-Fitting Bras - A Medical Perspective

Immune System Maintenance

Infant Colic and What to Do About It

Infective Endocarditis

Injuries From Casual Football

Insanity Prevention

Insanity and The Law

Internet Addiction

Intussusception

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Itches

Jade Goody: 1981 - 2009

Jane Tomlinson CBE - Charity Campaigner

Jogger's Nipple - the Medical Condition

Joseph Merrick - the 'Elephant Man'

Keratoconus

Killer Bees

Koro - the Genital Retraction Syndrome

Laser Eye Surgery

Legionnaires' Disease - Frequently Asked Questions

Legionnaires' Disease - a History of its Discovery

Leprosy

Living with Partial Deafness - Say That Again!

Living with a Gastrectomy: One Researcher's Experience.

Locks of Love - the Hair Charity

MRSA

Madness

Malaria

Marfan Syndrome

Massage

Measuring Blood Pressure

Medical Maggots

Medical Treatments For Constipation

Meningitis

Mental Health

Mental Health [10]

Metabolic Diseases

Metachromatic Leukodystrophy - A Genetic Disease

Microbes - Good or Bad?

Migraine

Minor Burns, Sunburns and How to Treat Them

Miscarriage

Mobile Phone Emissions

Multiple Sclerosis

Mushrooms that Kill Humans

My Experience of Cancer

My Life with a Cyst on My Brain

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)

Narcolepsy

New Age

Night-time Leg Cramps

Nitrogen Narcosis

Nose Bleeds

Noses - Drying the Sniffles

Notifiable Infectious Diseases in the UK

Nuclear Medicine

Nuclear Medicine Imaging

Obesity

Orthokeratology

Osteopathy

Outliving Your Child

PUPPPs - Itchiness in Pregnancy

Panic

Paper Cuts

Parkinson's Disease

Pediculosis

Pendulum Dowsing

Peripheral Oedema (Swelling of the Ankles)

Phantom Limbs

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Pityriasis Rosea - a Skin Complaint

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - The Longest Word

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

Post-natal Depression

Posterior Vitreous Detachment

Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

Pre-eclampsia and Eclampsia

Prepatellar Bursitis - Housemaid's Knee

Prevention and Cures for Colds

Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD)

Prions

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)

Prosopagnosia - A Personal Account of Face-Blindness

Pyloric Stenosis

Quality and Outcomes Framework for UK GPs

Rabies

Rectal Bleeding

Reiki

Relaxation Techniques

Removal of Certain Male Organs from the Zipper

Retinopathy of Prematurity

Rimonabant - Anti-obesity Drug

Running

SUNCTS Headaches

Sanpaku Eyes

Schizophrenia and 'Split Personality'

Sciatica

Scoliosis

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Secrets of Longevity

Self Injury

Sensuous Breathing

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) [3]

Shaving Your Patient's Face

Shell Shock

Shingles

Shirley Nolan OBE - Pioneer and Charity Campaigner

Skin Cancer - One Man's Experience

Skin Disorders [20]

Sleep and Sleeping Disorders [8]

Slipped Upper Femoral Epiphysis

St Andrew's Hospice, Grimsby, NE Lincolnshire, UK

Stillbirth

Streptococcus Pyogenes - Killer Flesh-eating Bacteria

Stress Incontinence

Strokes

Stubbing Your Toe

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Cot Death)

Superficial Bruising of the Skin

Surgical Emergencies: Acute Appendicitis

Surgical Emergencies: Acute Diverticulitis

Surgical Emergencies: Acute Limb Ischaemia

Surgical Emergencies: Acute Pancreatitis

Surgical Emergencies: Bowel Obstruction, Perforation and Ischaemia

Surgical Emergencies: Extradural Haematoma

Surgical Emergencies: Introduction

Surgical Emergencies: Testicular Torsion

Surgical Stapling

Swallowing (Deglutition)

Synaesthesia

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Tampon-Related Toxic Shock Syndrome

Tattoo Removal

Tattoo Safety

Tay-Sachs Disease

Ten Essentials of Outdoor Survival

'Covert' Stammer - a Personal Account

Act of Expectorating

Alexander Technique

The Autistic Spectrum [4]

Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1775 - 1776

Caesarean Section

Causes of Asthma

Cervical Traction Kit

English Smoking Ban of 2007

Healing Power of Curry

Hippocratic Oath

History of Teeth Cleaning

Human Herpes Viruses

Ill Effects of Chronic Drinking

Liver and its Diseases

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (England and Wales)

Needs of Pregnant Women

Plague

Science of Pacemakers

T-Loop

Tooth Amoeba

Transmission of Madness: Folie a Deux and Mass Psychogenic Illness

Truth About Nose-picking

Uvula

Willow Foundation

Things to Consider when Reading Medical Research

Thrush in the Milk Ducts

Tobacco Smoke

Total Solar Eclipses

Transient Ischaemic Attacks - or Mini Strokes

Transplantation - a Summary

Trepanation

Trigger Thumb

Undergoing an Anorectal Physiology Test and Proctogram

Understanding Bell's Palsy

Urge Incontinence

Uterine Fibroids

Vasectomy - Male Sterilisation

Waardenburg Syndrome

West Nile Virus

Whipple's Disease

Whooping Cough - Bordetella pertussis

Why Mosquitoes Must Die

William Banting - the First Person To Market Dieting

Wisdom Tooth Removal - a Personal Perspective

Worry Dolls

Wrapping up Warm

X-Ray Grids

X-Ray Tube Basics

X-Rays

Your Heart and the Sounds It Should and Shouldn't Make

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