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ADVICE FROM OUR WOMAN’S WEEKLY DOCTOR

Some years after he had swallowed a snake’s raw gall bladder “for a dare”, a man named Li, from Hunan, China, started getting optical disturbances in the form of a “mosaic like thing” appearing in his

Stephanie Smith, 37

Even if nobody in your family has asthma, if you’re regularly around children you’ve probably seen inhalers used for asthma treatment. Asthma is really common – it affects at least 1 in 10 children an

Screen scrolling, desk sitting, kid schlepping – modern life can batter and mangle your back. Unless you safeguard it

As a medical student, I had a total of two weeks’ training in dermatology – the specialty for skin diseases. That made it a bit of a shock when I entered general practice, where every other patient se