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This website is intended for healthcare professionals
In 1929, a book entitled ‘Ozone and its therapeutic actions’ was published, detailing more than 100 diseases that could be treated by O3 therapy (Juchniewicz and Lubkowska, 2020), and our knowledge of...
Depression was already one of the commonest mental disorders in Great Britain, but new research has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an increase of mental distress in adults across the...
Donna Kinnair, head of the Royal College of Nursing (herself no stranger to racism as a black woman living in the UK) points out that patients in black and minority communities have the worst outcomes...
The drug doxorubicin slows or stops the spread of cancer cells by blocking the enzyme, topoisomerase, which cancer cells rely on for their division and growth (Cancer Research UK (CRUK), 2019). It is...
One such therapy, first offered to patients in the UK in early 2019, is chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T). CAR-T forms part of a newer class of medicines called advanced therapy medicinal...
Millions of patients across Britain, as well as their families and carers, are affected by chronic pain. Unfortunately, chronic pain can have a devastating impact upon a person's day-to-day life,...
There appear to be high rates of hospital admissions for drug misuse poisoning in areas with high levels of opioid prescription (Burns, 2019). Although local authority spokespeople claim there is no...
The development of antibiotics has been revolutionary for medicine and public health. However, given the resistance that is now building up against them, we are facing one of the most significant and...
Alongside important lifestyle changes, first-line treatment for heart failure is an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor and a beta blocker licensed for heart failure in people with reduced...
The PHE (2019) review was a response to a call from the Minister for public health and primary care in 2017 for PHE to identify the scale, distribution and causes of prescription drug dependence, and...
The basic care in the UK referred to by Asthma UK consists of the prescription and use of preventer, reliever and combination inhalers, as well as tablets, injections, surgery and other novel...
The research surrounding the risks of vaping is conflicting, as e-cigarettes contain nicotine, and are addictive and toxic; however, its effects appear less detrimental to a person's health than...
Precision medicine takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle. It is an emerging approach to disease prevention and treatment that is being increasingly considered...
The recently published study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology has revealed that although cannabis does have some harmful effects on the areas of the brain involved in processing sensory and...
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