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It is reported that 3 in 10 people experience varicose veins in their lifetime with many more experiencing smaller thread or spider veins too. The amount of patients that get them checked or treated however, is significantly less. Many people do not think to get them checked as it often just ...
A retired marine academic is back being a hockey umpire and skiing, after a pioneering “made-to-measure” knee operation using 3D moulds. Peter Grove was suffering increasing pain from a knee injury 40 years ago and been forced to give up playing most sports before the operation which has ...
An 85-year-old from Conwy is enjoying a new lease of life after a top surgeon replaced both her knee joints using models created on a 3D printer. The cutting-edge technology at the Spire Yale Hospital in Wrexham has allowed Irena Griffiths to walk unaided for the first time in five years and ...
Tinnitus sufferers can now be treated by some of the UK’s leading specialist audiologists from the comfort of their own home, thanks to the introduction of a ‘hugely beneficial’ patient app. Designed to ‘transform the treatment of tinnitus and hearing loss’, Tinnitus Desensitisation ...
Heart disease can affect people at different ages. Younger people may be affected by inherited or congenital conditions. Coronary heart disease is classically associated with being an old man’s disease, however younger men and women are also affected by heart disease, but their symptoms are not ...
Influenza is a viral infection of the respiratory tract and is highly infectious. Symptoms include sudden onset of fever, chills, muscle pain, fatigue, headache, dry cough, sore throat and stuffy nose.
Dr Angela Rai from The London General Practice, discusses the benefits and importance of vitamin D.
A smear test (cervical screening) is when the health of the cervix (the opening to the womb from the vagina) is checked. A sample of cells is taken form the cervix to look for abnormal cell changes.
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