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

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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

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

Just 10 days after giving birth, Karina’s face had gone all droopy. What was going on?

Q My husband suffers from depression. How can I help him? A When someone you love has depression, it can be hard to know what to do. The most important thing is to be kind and patient. Depression is a