Your local or high street pharmacy holds inside it a vital resource for people with asthma: the local pharmacist. Along with your asthma nurse and family doctor, your local pharmacist will be able to answer questions about your asthma as…
Focal Dyscognitive Seizures have been known by a number of different names, including psychomotor seizures and complex partial seizures. They’re currently described most often as focal onset impaired awareness seizures. If someone has this type of seizure, they’ll experience a…
Medical cannabis is to be made available to UK patients on prescription, according to a recent announcement from the British Home Secretary following the two high-profile cases of Billy Caldwell and Alfie Dingley. Residents may expect the new laws to…
Suddenly, you’re struck down with post natal depression. You want to know why you’ve been chosen to deal with this illness, of all the people it could affect. You’re ready to just get on with becoming a mother – you’ve…
Our bodies’ cholesterol levels are only controlled to a small degree by the amount of cholesterol found in our food. Our heart health and cholesterol is still controlled by our diet, just in a different way. Higher levels of unhealthy…
Inattention, poor impulse control and hyperactivity are some of the key characteristics that define the behavioural disorder, ADHD. When your child is just a baby or toddler, the difficult behaviours associated with ADHD may slowly become apparent. Many children with…
The majority of parents will notice pretty quickly if their child is having problems in school. Always being at the bottom of the class, not understanding what’s happening or knowing the answer and not being able to share the information…
The name AIDS stands for Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome. This is a disease that stops the body from fighting off infectious diseases efficiently. AIDS is caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) when it infects and damages the body’s defences. The CD4…
Bullying happens in lots of schools all over the world, and affects many students in those schools. The way in which a school deals with the problem is what really decides whether school life will be miserable or fun. Bullying…
Insulin and other hormones are in charge of regulating the concentration (amount) of sugar in the blood. Diabetes is the name given to conditions where blood sugar levels can no longer be regulated by the body. Diabetes can occur in…