Your good health

One moment Charlotte was larking about with some lads on a stag do, the next she was bent double in agony…

Last week, I spoke about my surprise at receiving news that microcalcifications had been found on a routine mammogram. I’d had no symptoms and had been blasé about being recalled for a second scan, bu

I’ve just completed five days of radiotherapy. That’s not a sentence I ever imagined I’d write! But yes, I’m home after five back-to-back sessions to zap any lingering cancer cells that might have bee

What are the early, often-missed signs that your heart might be under strain? A Some signs of heart strain tend to be very subtle, and people often dismiss them as down to ageing, stress, or just bein

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