Arranging your own full pathology report is normally an excellent starting point for anyone who wants to know their actual general health status or wants to monitor any particular changes. As consultant urologist Mr Rick Popert explains in his article on prostate cancer,

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Prof Lahiri says: “Chest pains are often the first telltale signs of CVD, however, in many instances the differential diagnosis of chest pain is elusive, leading to a large number of ‘false’ diagnosis”.

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What choice do patients actually have and how can patients work closer with their doctors to review all the most relevant options

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A campaign to improve the quality of information about cervical cancer which appears when you search on Google has been started by Malcolm Coles

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plastic surgery is little different to a drug and they would be better off reading the article on addiction by Dr Robert Lefever

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London Consultant Neurosurgeon Ian Sabin, Martin Kemp describes his shock at discovering not just one, but two brain tumours.

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Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital Foundation Trust, Orthopaedic Consultant Surgeon, Mr Khai Lam says: “The concept behind the in Capital Health Web site is excellent

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46,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year London breast cancer surgeon Professor Kefah Mokbel.

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Viruses mutate and evolve rapidly which is the root cause of the problem in attempts to find a vaccine that works. However, there is antibody cross-reactivity between strains and this means that protection from one strain may also lend protection from another. The classic example of this is the protection that Cowpox vaccine gives against [...]

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Crutches and Sore Hands “Crutch Hand” as a condition should have its own place in the medical dictionary. The term ‘iatrogenic’ refers to a ‘physician produced’ disease or condition

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