Doctor's Diary: A CT scan is not always necessary for minor head injuriies
The five clinical criteria to decide if children need a CT scan, the ongoing saga at Whipps Cross Hospital and horse chestnut extract for arthritic joints (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Care Quality Commission arthritis horse chestnut extract prostate brain injury CT scan Whipps Cross Hospital Doctor's Diary James Le Fanu Source Type: news

The natural product transforming the lives of cancer patients after surgery
A pioineering treatment helped cellist Caroline Brown to treat a rare form of cancer, and she aims to be playing again soon, says Cherril Hicks (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Satvindar Mudan Paul Harris Hanover Band Krukenberg tumour metastatic cancer MRSA Caroline Brown Royal Marsden Hospital acellular dermal matrix Source Type: news

Mothers should not be forced to breast feed
A study has shown that breastfed babies have higher IQs, spend longer in education and earn more in their careers - but there are too many variables and women should not be pressurised (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: breastfeeding cigarettes Sam Smith Max Pemberton Brazilian study IQ weight loss plain packaging Source Type: news

The ART of Active Release Technique for injuries
Everton and Tottenham Hotspur football teams already use it - so what is the theory behind this therapy that is so effective at relieving pain? (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: ART active release techniques lucy fry pain relief sport injury muscle therapy Source Type: news

Dr Le Fanu's online health clinic, Friday 20th March 2015
Concerned about aches and pains? Worried about a medical condition? You can email your questions confidentially to Dr Le Fanu at drjames@telegraph.co.uk. Answers will be published in the health section of the Telegraph website every Friday. Today - hot flush premonitions, nocturnal cramp, magnesium deficiency and jam doughnuts for migraine, The online clinic will return on Friday April 10 (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: night cramps Dr James Online clinic migraine statins beta blockers James Le Fanu Manuka honey Source Type: news

Toxic smog and air pollution trigger health alert
Professor Sir Malcolm Green warns about health warnings as the toxic smog grips the UK (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: air health professor malcolm green toxic smog europe alert UK pollution environment Source Type: news

'I feel lost': Why over-50s seek therapy
They no longer have to worry about work, the mortgage or their children. So why are more older men and women turning to professionals for help, asks Louise Chunn (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: redundant death mental health loss affairs love psychotherapy divorce Source Type: news

Could charities be more effective if they merged?
Over 6,000 applications for new charities were filed in 2013-14. But would channelling these resources into existing charities - already under serious pressure - be more valuable? (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: charities Judith Potts Marie Curie health Macmillan Cancer Maggies Source Type: news

Feeling ripped off by dental treatment? This is how to fight back
Some procedures can now cost tens of thousands of pounds. We look at ways to pay less (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: cheap dentists dentist costs fillings teeth whitening dentures NHS private dental care dentistry Source Type: news

The Gambian despot who 'cured HIV-AIDS' and his British homoeopath allies
President Yahyah Jammeh, the dictator who has defied medical opinion since 2007 by claiming to have found a cure for HIV-AIDS, has found allies in a British homoeopathic group sponsored by the official suppliers of homoeopathic medicine to the Royal family (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: gambia homoeopathic President Yahyah Jammeh Gambia Wellness Foundation HIV-AIDS Source Type: news

The five 'quack' cures offered by a British homoeopathy charity in Gambia
What 'mainstream' doctors said about charity's treatments for snakebite, burns, malaria and other conditions (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

'Losing control is my greatest fear'
Like the late Sir Terry Pratchett, Paul Bulmer was diagnosed with Posterior Cortical Atrophy, a rare and unusual form of Azlheimer's Disease that affects younger people. While he is a fierce campaigner for more research, he is determined to live life to the full (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Posterior Cortical Atrophy Alzheimer's Research UK Terry Pratchett Alzheimers The Embuggerance dementia Professor Sebastian Crutch University College London's Dementia Research Centre Source Type: news

Doctor's Diary: 'Liquorice Allsorts cured my cramp'
In his weekly round-up of reader's questions, Dr LeFanu addresses over-zealous concerns about food allergies and strange remedies for cramp (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: cures Doctor's diary health advice Liquorice Allsorts James Le Fanu cramp Source Type: news

'Postcode lottery' is not just about drugs
Muscular Dystrophy sufferer, Freddie Kemp, needed a cough-assist machine to help him breathe but he lived in the wrong place and although a loan machine was found, he died shortly afterwards (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Dr Michelle Chatwin Muscular Dystrophy UK Duchenne muscular dystrophy Baroness Thomas of Winchester Health minister Earl Howe Royal Brompton Hospital postcode lottery Source Type: news

Obesity not dementia will be the biggest threat to the NHS
Attitudes need to change, making obesity as unacceptable as smoking, says Max Pemberton (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: obesity coffee Max Pemberton dementia Judi Dench Joanna Trollope diabetes superfood caffeine Source Type: news