Medical Conditions, Procedures & Prevention
This is where you can find Edited Entries on the above Category
- '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
- Black Eyes and How to Cure Them
- 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
- Covid-19 [3]
- 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
- Ignaz Semmelweis and the Campaign for Healthy Hand-Washing
- 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'
- Keep on the Sunny Side - Singing Away the Great Depression
- 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
- Norovirus - the Winter Vomiting Bug
- 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 - The Discredited 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]
- Battle Against Ebola
- 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
- What You Might Expect From A Hysterectomy
- 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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