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Alternative Medicines for Mental Health

Kerry Hudson | Posted 14.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Milk Thistle, Depression, Holistic Medicine, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Hypnosis, Addiction, Hops, Alternative Medicine, Valerian, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Gp, Insomnia, Aromatherapy, Doctors, Herbs, Skullcap, Anxiety, Medicine, Chamomile, Mood-Stabilizers, UK Lifestyle News
Kerry Hudson

Many of us are choosing a greener lifestyle, and that goes for medication too. Holistic therapist Sorrell Robbins explains "The idea of alternative medicine - namely herbs - is to help moderate and balance the individual alongside medical and/or psychiatric care and not to cure conditions that mainstream doctors were unable to".

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Uniquely British? Why We Aren't Willing to Challenge Our Doctors

Dr Sneh Khemka | Posted 11.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Health News, Doctors, Online Research, Health Advice, Online Health Advice, Doctors Confidence, UK Lifestyle News
Dr Sneh Khemka

Whether it's in Britain or elsewhere, a percentage of patients are genuinely limiting their choices and access to appropriate treatment and care because they simply don't feel comfortable to challenge their doctor about advice or treatment options.

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Why Skype is Not the Answer for the NHS (But the Internet Might Be)

Rachel Carrell | Posted 26.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Doctors, Medical Costs, Personal Health, Nhs, Health Care, Remote Healthcare, Health News, UK Tech, Skype, Nhs Cuts, UK Lifestyle News
Rachel Carrell

Dr Hennessey lives in London. Dave lives in Newcastle. They've never met. Dave's entire consultation was conducted over the internet and telephone. His inhaler was sent through the post.

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Why Having A ‘Check Up’ Makes No Difference To Your Health (PICTURES)

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.11.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Health News, Doctors, Heart Disease, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, UK News, Nhs, UK Lifestyle News

General health checks do not reduce the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease or cancer, researchers suggest. The checks, which have become ...

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Could Antibiotics Crisis Mean Colds Become Fatal?

PA | Posted 16.11.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Antibiotics, Health News, Doctors, Flu, Cold, UK Lifestyle News

Patients have been urged not to request antibiotics for coughs and colds due to an increasing resistance to treatments in the population. It is imp...

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Mother To Sue NHS Over 'Preventable' Baby Death

PA | Posted 14.11.2012 | UK
Read More: Hospitals, Motherhood, Doctors, UK News, Baby, Nurses, Nhs, UK News

The mother of a baby girl who died after serious failures by hospital staff is to sue the NHS over her daughter's "preventable and predictable" death....

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'Just Think Of Me As Good Old Uncle Jim'

PA | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Newsnight Savile, Itv, Jimmy Savile, UK News, Mark Williams Thompson, Bbc, Jimmy Savile Scandal, Savile Scandal, Doctors, News, Yorkshire Police, UK News

Fresh claims have emerged that Jimmy Savile tried to rape a woman while on a hospital visit and told her "just think of me as good old uncle Jim". ...

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PICTURED: Sunny Holiday Snaps From The Day A Boy Was Molested By Jimmy Savile

PA | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Newsnight Savile, Itv, Jimmy Savile, Bbc, UK News, Jimmy Savile Scandal, Mark Williams Thompson., Savile Scandal, Doctors, News, Yorkshire Police, UK News

A picture has been released of a boy standing next to Jimmy Savile's Rolls-Royce on the same day he claims he was abused by the TV star. The allege...

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Leeds Hospital Disputes Porter's Claims About Savile Abusing Girls

PA | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Newsnight Savile, Itv, Jimmy Savile, Bbc, UK News, Jimmy Savile Scandal, Mark Williams Thompson., Savile Scandal, Doctors, News, Yorkshire Police, UK News

A hospital has disputed claims by a former porter that Jimmy Savile would regularly take teenage girls to a private hospital block alone. Terry Pra...

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Ted Thornhill

Why Did So Many Turn A Blind Eye To Savile's Abuse?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ted Thornhill | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Newsnight Savile, Itv, Jimmy Savile, UK News, Bbc, Jimmy Savile Scandal, Mark Williams Thompson., Savile Scandal, Doctors, News, Yorkshire Police, UK News

The scale of Jimmy Savile’s alleged abuse has left the nation in complete shock – not least because it has become apparent, for instance through t...

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Jimmy Savile 'Took Teenage Girls To Hospital'

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Newsnight Savile, Itv, Jimmy Savile, UK News, Bbc, Jimmy Savile Scandal, Mark Williams Thompson., Savile Scandal, Doctors, News, Yorkshire Police, UK News

Jimmy Savile was handed a key to a hospital block where he regularly would take teenage girls alone, a former porter has claimed. Terry Pratt said ...

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TV Bosses 'Laughed At Me' For Reporting Savile Sex Abuse

Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Newsnight Savile, Itv, Jimmy Savile, UK News, Bbc, Jimmy Savile Scandal, Mark Williams Thompson., Savile Scandal, Doctors, News, Yorkshire Police, UK News

A former television newsreader said he was "laughed at" after telling managers he spotted Jimmy Savile pinching a girl's bottom whilst he was working ...

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Jimmy Savile Police Look At Claims Doctors Abused Children

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Newsnight Savile, Jimmy Savile, Bbc, UK News, Jimmy Savile Scandal, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Savile Scandal, Doctors, News, UK News

Information on three doctors who worked at hospitals where Jimmy Savile had links has been passed to police amid claims they were involved in a networ...

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We Need to Break the Taboo Surrounding Self Harm and Start Talking About It

Sarah Brennan | Posted 22.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Internet, Education, Gp, Youth, Mental Health, Children, Doctors, Teachers, Young People, Self-Harm, Parents, UK Lifestyle News
Sarah Brennan

Only one in 10 young people are comfortable seeking advice from teachers, parents and GPs. Over half would go online to get support about self-harm despite only one in five trusting online sources.

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Doctors To Get 'Medical MOTs'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.12.2012 | UK
Read More: Medical Mot, Fit to Practice, UK News, Jeremy Hunt, Doctors Appraisals, General Medical Council, Doctors, UK Health News, Nhs, UK News

Doctors' skills are to be reassessed every year to ensure they are fit to practise, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced, in what has been dubbe...

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Back Pain: Don't Suffer in Silence

Cabella Lowe | Posted 16.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Posture, Video, Back Pain, Work, Health, Health News, Doctors, UK Health, Lower Back Pain, Injury, Physiotherapists, Hips, UK Health News, Slideexpand, UK Lifestyle News
Cabella Lowe

As a physiotherapist I know it's never too late to start looking after your back, and you only need make small adjustments to reap the benefits.

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Bone Cancer Often 'Misdiagnosed' By Doctors

PA | Posted 08.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Bone Cancer, Health News, Symptoms, Doctors, UK News, Cancer, Diagnosis, UK Lifestyle News

A dangerous form of bone cancer is often being misdiagnosed by GPs as growing pains, a charity has warned. Just 42% of people who develop osteosarc...

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'I Accused Doctors Of Plotting To Kill Me'

WENN | Posted 07.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Girls Aloud, Celeb, Video, Derek Hough, Malaria, Doctors, Cheryl Cole, UK Celeb, Cheryl, Cheryls Autobiography, Safari, Home News

Cheryl Cole became "delirious" with fever during her malaria fight - lashing out at her doctors and accusing them of plotting to kill her. The Girl...

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We Need to Look Beyond the Victorian View of Doctors and Nurses

Wendy Purcell | Posted 04.12.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Science, Doctors, Nurses, Biomedicine, Healthcare, Stem-Cell Research, Modern Medicine, Blood Transfusion, UK Universities & Education News
Wendy Purcell

We still have a Victorian view of those who choose a career in health and think just of being a doctor or a nurse as they're the people we see when we visit our GP or go into a hospital. But there is very much another professional group to choose if your choice is to help people with illness retain their health or at least manage their condition.

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Why Are Female Doctors Paid 28% Less Than Their Male Colleagues?

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 19.09.2012 | UK
Read More: Glass Ceiling, Doctors, Bmj, UK News, Nurses, UK Economy, Nhs, UK News

Female doctors’ pay lags behind their male colleagues by 28.6%, according to the latest survey of UK hourly pay by the Office of National Statistics...

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Why Are Complaints About Britain's Doctors Soaring?

PA | Posted 18.09.2012 | UK
Read More: Doctors and Patients, UK News, General Medical Council, Doctors, Surgeons, Gps, Patients, Nhs, UK News

Complaints about doctors have reached a record high, the General Medical Council (GMC) said. Since 2009, the number of complaints has soared - and ...

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'This Is No Way To Run A Health Service'

PA | Posted 13.09.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, Nurses, Health-Warnings, Nhs Failures, National Health Service, Doctors, UK Health News, Royal College of Physicians, Nhs, UK News

Hospitals are so full that elderly patients are being discharged in the middle of the night and routine blood tests are being conducted at 3am, the Ro...

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Strong Medicine For MD's and Online Reputation

Ehud Furman | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Personal Branding, Doctors, Veribo, Physicians, Online Reputation, UK Tech News
Ehud Furman

The media can be absolutely merciless at times and it does not take much for a medical practitioner's reputation to be dragged through the mud. Unfortunately with medical malpractice suits there will often be a push for publicity to garnish sympathy, particularly if it's a high profile case.

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Leader Of British Doctors Claims NHS Patients Put 'At Risk' By Reforms

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.09.2012 | UK
Read More: NHS Reforms, Doctors, Andy Burnham, UK News, British Medical Association, Bma, News, Dr Mark Porter, Nhs, UK News

The new leader of Britain's doctors has told The Guardian that the health of NHS patients is being put at risk because they are being denied access to...

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Hair Today, Not Gone Tomorrow

B.J. Epstein | Posted 15.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Cherry Healey, Women's Rights, Women's Health, Body Image, Body Hair, Doctors, Medicine, Women and Body Image, UK Lifestyle News
B.J. Epstein

How is it acceptable in any way to tell your girlfriend that you'll leave her unless she is completely bare down there? What does it say about your feelings for her? What does it say about you as a person, if hair is such a big concern?

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