What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ Having congratulated myself on sailing through the menopause with no hot flushes, I now find myself struck down with vaginal atrophy.
Keep moving. While bed rest is the traditional recommendation for back sufferers, the latest research shows that movement is the key to preventing trauma from turning into chronic pain. Try to ke ...
Men are usually made to feel that they are responsible for their own loss of sexual potency. But in 85 per cent of cases, the cause is organic or drug induced and not psychological. Antihistamines ...
Doctors sometimes use a combination of herbs to soothe inflammation in the digestive tract. Aloe vera juice is often recommended, though it is not well studied in inflammatory bowel disease.
IT’S SPRING-CLEAN SEASON: How to clear out your gut
I have been experiencing extreme tenderness in my lower left abdomen for some time now. My doctor has diagnosed diverticulitis and has given me a course of antibiotics. He says that in extreme cas ...
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* Herbal medicine. Studies show that Ginkgo biloba can stop some of the major symptoms of cerebrovascular insufficiency. It is especially helpful in early-stage Alzheimer’s, and can slow its progress
If you've been reading these pages, you've heard me ranting on about MLX 249, the proposed amendment to give the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) a broad new range of powers over herbs and vitamins. ...
Sometimes known as 'pink eye', conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the conjunctiva, the eye's protective outer covering. In this common condition, the eye becomes red, sore, feels gritty and may ...
