What a year it’s been. When the Big Ben chimed in 2020 at the climax of our New Year celebrations last December, only those who had been closely following international news would have had an inkling of what was to come. Nearly 11 ...
So here we are, officially into autumn with the changing of the clocks and the shorter days that brings. This is a time of year when we feel loss most acutely. Though September and even October can bring warm days, they tend to be ...
Bubonic plague and cholera. Two pandemics that, broadly speaking, the world no longer fears thanks in large part to a combination of improved sanitation and effective vaccination and treatment. Together they have been responsible for ...
This week saw us mark World Heart Day 2020, the moment when we take a moment to recognise the role that cardiovascular disease (CVD) plays in global health outcomes and think about how we can all do more to protect ourselves. One of ...
In modern times, the menopause has become the curse of the older woman, a span of years to be endured, often miserably, until the status quo returns and balance is restored. It wasn’t always that way. Since the dawn of time man has ...
If you’re anything like me, you probably feel a little gloomier at this time of year. As August slips into September, there’s a real sense that summer is at an end and autumn is just over the horizon. As the names of the months ...
Last month I wrote an article that made the case for a greater emphasis to be placed on healthcare strategy in the UK. If you missed that piece, you can read it to find out what I mean by integrative health and why I think it’s ...
For many families, the next two months are likely to add up to a potent cocktail of high emotion, stress, elation (hopefully), disappointment (maybe) and loss. As I write this, we are around a fortnight away from this year’s crop of ...
It’s not all that long ago that the health treatment choices available to us were more or less binary: you either opted to go the conventional clinical medicine route, or you took the road less travelled and decided on alternative or ...
Get winter-fit with acupuncture Now, bear with me here – I know no-one is ready to talk about winter yet. We’ve barely experienced a summer and we definitely had a spring stolen away from us – but I want us all to be prepared. With ...
