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Are inhalers making asthma worse?
13th March 2010
Yes inhalers do minimize sever attack of asthma, .and is helpful
Islamabad's pollen nightmare
13th March 2010
I am suffering from pollen allergy since 1984 with asthma although I take medicine but still do suffer from this severe suffer from allergy. CDA is not taking proper step to destroy paper Melboury trees in ICT so far patients are increasing rather than decreasing.
Electronic medical records explained
11th March 2010
I have a 93 year old father who is registered blind and deaf who believes that his care has been compromised by the lack of sharing and interconnection of information. His view is that issues around the sharing of information delay measurable improvements to patient care. Why do we have so many worries
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... about confidentaility of electronic information when NHS paper information is so vulverable?
Hypnosis useful for anxious teens
11th March 2010
You can also find out more and seek help for many life-issues, by coming to see Dr. David Byron. Chartered Psychologist and Hypnotherapist in Winchester, Southampton, Basingstoke, Eastleigh and Fareham in Hampshire. A full-time, insured, qualified and experienced Hypnotherapist in Hampshire.
Health tourism crackdown
3rd March 2010
From someone in the frontline of a London Trust I think 5 million is a somewhat 'conservative' assumption of unpaid fees (pardon the pun) and that we will never really know the total amount that 'healthcare tourism' costs the NHS.
Obama still hopeful over reforms
1st March 2010
You know we tend to lok at the US and think that they are ahead of the game in terms of Healthcare. The scare stories in relation to UK and the NHS are obviously written in ignorance of our system.
President Obama is correct when he states that healthcare should not develop into a political theatre
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... and in truth the US could learn a great deal from the UK Healthcare systems.
Collegues from Healthcare RM carried out research in the US some 25 years ago and you know what the US was behind in healthcare then and they have not moved forward.
CBT provides relief from back pain
1st March 2010
Back pain or in fact how to deal with it would appear to have evaded the healthcare profession. Healthcare RM developed and use a multi disciplined team to deal not only with lower back pain but muskuloskeletal problems. Part of the methodology is to use a biophsyco social approach using CBT techniques.
What the teams at
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... Oxford and Warwick have found through their research confirms the results we have found at healthcare RM
Fry urges people to take part in bipolar study
25th February 2010
Will you take my DNA from the USA?
New fertility test for women
23rd February 2010
New test!!! We've been doing this one for ages. Here's an article from 2006 describing it... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-400666/Blood-test-tell-Its-baby.html
Looks like the Aussies might need to do a bit more reading :)
Tories refuse to take part in elderly care talks
19th February 2010
I am currently fighting to keep my mother's house out of the clutches of my local authority. I am not opposed to the principle of people contributing towards their care, but robbing vulnerable pensioners of their pensions and their homes simply is not fair. Mum worked all her life, paid her taxes and NI then
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... struggled to buy her house after retiring. My family feel we have been misled and medical reports have been economical with the facts in order to tailor mum to fit the local authority's criteria for social care rather than for medical care.
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