Mon, Nov 12 2018

Thank you for your patience during this last few months, or so, whilst I have been moving house and dealing with big life-changes. Enjoy the updated newsletter after it's break and hope to get back to normality very soon! #patientcare…

Shortcuts to my most read articles (over 3000 views). Top 3 listed individually, the remainder are in a table – click on the article title links on the left column to read and please feel free to share. In first place – Neuroendocrine…

→ Patients and the public → How to join in → Patient Research Ambassadors A Patient Research Ambassador is someone who promotes health research from a patient point of view. They could be a patient, service user, carer or lay…

A five-minute scan could be used to spot people at risk of dementia before symptoms appear, researchers claim. Scientists used ultrasound scanners to look at blood vessels in the necks of more than 3,000 people and monitored them over the next 15…

Sciatica refers to pain that radiates along the path of the sciatic nerve, which branches from your lower back through your hips and buttocks and down each leg. Typically, sciatica affects only one side of your body. Sciatica most commonly occurs…