Sickle cell anaemia: The Pain, The Pallor and The Prejudices.

‘Take away this pain please, with anything; morphine, pethidine, everything! Pleeeeaaaassseee’ It is a typical A&E setting during my junior doctor years, the alarm bells starts ringing; here s/he is, another drug misuser or seeker…

Menopause Matters

Premature or early menopause can occur at any age, and in many cases there is no clear cause, and it can run in some families. There could be underlying causes such as Smoking, surgery to remove the ovaries due to cancer or other diseases, some cancer treatment eg chemotherapy or radiotherapy, due to underlying Genetic condition such as Down Syndrome , Autoimmune conditions such as Addison’s disease (A form of hormonal deficiency ).

The Pandemic & The Covid Vaccine

The Antonine Plague of the 2nd Century, described as similar to smallpox, may have killed as much as ten percent of the Roman population over a 23-year period in the late second century of 165 to 180 AD.