ADVICE FROM OUR WOMAN’S WEEKLY DOCTOR

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

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

ADVICE FROM OUR WOMAN’S WEEKLY DOCTOR

What the scientists are saying…

A NEW TREATMENT FOR MALARIA MALARIA DEATHS WERE DECLINING NOT THAT LONG AGO. Now, they have ticked back up. The disease, spread by mosquitoes, currently kills more than 600,000 people annually, most o