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Neurosurgery is one of the newest branches of medical science and can offer relief to a range of previously untreatable conditions. However, with only just over 100 neurosurgeons and around 30 specialist centres providing services for the whole of the UK, accessing this treatment can be a long and ...
An advert featuring a 'cosmaceutical' product has been aired for the first time in the UK. The subject of the commercial is restylane which, although a medical device, is also classified as a cosmaceutical as it falls into both the cosmetic and pharmaceutical brackets.
Losing a tooth through an accident or injury or as a result of decay can be very traumatic. It can affect the way you look and the way you speak, as well as compromising your ability to chew. Furthermore, the gap left by the missing tooth can strain the teeth on either side causing them to lean ...
When you are pregnant, you’re offered two, or at the most, three, ultrasound pregnancy scans on the NHS. The number and timing of the scans seem to vary depending on which area you live in and your age, but as a general rule you will have a scan at about 12 weeks (a nuchal scan or dating scan), ...
Finding an available NHS dentist can be a difficult task. They’re in such short supply and there can be long waiting lists before you’re even considered, but there are still some practices willing to take on new NHS patients if you happen to be in the right place at the right time.
Spinal injections may be used in many cases of chronic back pain, both to find out what is causing the pain and also to treat the pain. These two separate uses of spinal injections are referred to as diagnostic and therapeutic. If an injection provides pain relief in the area that is injected, it ...
The Institute of Economic Affairs has published a new survey report, Sixty Years On: Who Cares for the NHS?, by Dr Helen Evans, Director of Nurses for Reform. Containing a series of devastating blows to the NHS, the report shows that when speaking off the record a substantial majority of ...
The nuchal fold scan (sometimes known as the ‘nuchal translucency scan’) is performed at the end of your first trimester of pregnancy between weeks 11 and 14, with the most optimal time being the 12th week. At this time, you’re also offered a combination of blood tests for more information ...
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