Dancing to a brand new tune

8:47am Tuesday 18th November 2008

Janine had danced leading ballet roles all over the world. She had kept her weight to a minimum throughout her career. At 38, she now teaches students, so she has to maintain her slim physique by controlling what she eats. She has taught herself not to respond to hunger by eating.

Drawbacks of a 'miracle' drug

8:47am Tuesday 18th November 2008

Statins for all to reduce cholesterol a non-starter

Holiday souvenir you don't want

8:32am Tuesday 11th November 2008

Don’t let a faraway trip leave you feeling ill

Hormones needed topping up

8:30am Tuesday 11th November 2008

Alison is a young grandma who enjoys looking after her two grand-daughters. She keeps herself fit and her weight hasn’t changed in 30 years.

Shrinking world behind the TB rise

8:42am Tuesday 4th November 2008

Vigilance is needed if world is not to return to those bad old days

Case history

8:39am Tuesday 4th November 2008

Alan enjoyed his 55th birthday party. Apart from a little indigestion afterwards, in the upper right abdomen just under his ribs, which only lasted a minute or two, he felt on top of the world.

Case history

9:22am Tuesday 28th October 2008

Alec is 45 and a busy newspaperman. An ex-soccer player, he is less fit than he was. He has put a little around his middle in the last few years. But that isn’t why he came to me. He had an itchy foreskin, and it sometimes ‘burnt’ a little when he passed urine. It looked red, and occasionally there was a small bead of pus at the end of the opening of the foreskin. He is a happily married family man, and he knew that he had not ‘strayed’, so that it was very unlikely to be a sexually transmitted disease. But from what he had read in magazines, it seemed very much like one.

Massaging minds with bad science

9:20am Tuesday 28th October 2008

Book that debunks modern ‘myths’

Why it's vital to keep taking the tablets

8:44am Tuesday 21st October 2008

Twelve years ago I wrote a book on angina for people with heart problems. In it I explained how doctors diagnose and treat angina, and the advice we give on how to help yourself if you have the illness. My publisher asked me to update the book for 2009.

Case history

8:45am Tuesday 21st October 2008

When Emma was 12 she had bouts of ‘stomach cramps’, which her mum put down to the fact that she would soon be starting her periods.

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