We have known about the role of estrogen in breast cancer going back to the 1800s, when in some cases, surgical removal of the ovaries seemed to help. Ovaries were said to send out mysterious influences to the rest of the body, which, in 1923, was identified as estrogen. The medical profession jumped on this …Read More
Torticollis is one of those diseases with a stealth picture. One day you’re leading a normal, uneventful life. The next day you wake up with a stiff neck. You don’t think much about it and you go about your usual business. But your neck doesn’t get better. So, you book an appointment with your GP. You’re told it’s …Read More
Being a mother can be a real bitch. Nothing you do is right. You’re too strict. You’re not strict enough. Your kid is sick because she was vaccinated. Your kid is sick because she wasn’t vaccinated. In fact, your kid is a danger to every other child in the entire world. Nothing you do is …Read More
My favourite activity in the world is sleeping. How can you tell I’m a working mother? It’s that feeling when you’re happily in la-la land, dreaming about wonderful things… and then the alarm rings. Back to the real world. The thing about alarms is that they are just that – alarms. They often serve as …Read More
Why don’t more doctors practice preventive cardiology? Time availability is a reason frequently cited by physicians, but if you probe a little deeper, the number one reason given was their perception that patients fear being deprived of all the junk they’re eating. Can you imagine a doctor saying, “I’d like to tell my patients to …Read More