Doctors

Doctors now want patients to start paying a fee of up to £25 every time they want an appointment. The NHS is designed to protect the wellness and wellbeing of all UK residents but now doctors are keen that a fee should be charged for each…

There is a new trend in anti-ageing board certification whereby medical practitioners undergo further training mainly in the areas of lifestyle, nutritional therapies and bio-identical hormones as opposed to synthetics or hormones naturally…

A recent study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, suggests that doctors fail to provide important information about sexual health to sexually active teens on a regular basis, which could be leading to them making the wrong…

While teenagers may be a little more sexually liberated today than teenagers were a few decades ago, that is not to say they understand sex any more. Talking about sexual wellness can be difficult for you and your teenagers, despite…

It may become a usual event that we see doctors regularly using computer predictions in judging how to treat their cancer patients. This has come after scientists constructed mathematical formulas that have been able to outperform…

Your family doctor has probably given a placebo to at least one patient. This is according to a survey published in PLOS One, which found that most family doctors hand out a placebo at some point in their career. Of 783 GPs polled, 97%…

In the last several decades, numerous types of medical testing have helped doctors to make informed decisions about disease diagnosis and treatment. Today’s medical tests can diagnose everything from diabetes and hormonal deficiencies to…

According to a shocking new health survey, where emergency doctors were asked for their opinions, around 90 percent believe that resuscitation practices aren’t effective enough. This was carried out via a State of Resuscitation survey,…

On the 21st March 2013, a survey result showed that 97 percent of doctors admitted to prescribing placebos to their patients. Furthermore, in Oxford and Southampton universities, it was discovered that not all of these placebos were…

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If you have been going to the doctor since you were little, you probably know the basic routine by now. Nurses or doctors will test your blood pressure, check your reflexes and ask some standard questions. You might be familiar with the…

For the last 10 years, many studies on diabetes wellness have shown that intensive weight loss intervention programmes led by medical health professionals have reduced incidences of type 2 diabetes. However, if you have, or are trying to…

Mental health problems affect a large number of people in the UK every day. Over a quarter of all people living in the UK will experience some sort of mental health problem during their life, and this means that these types of health…