Loving this sudden interest in the dangers of sugar. It's something we have been promoting at Openhealth Clinic for the last four years. Maybe our national obsession with Fat, Cholesterol and Statins has been overstated. Next time you are in a Supermarket, check the ingredients of...
Very interested to read an article on Pharmaceutical companies and the fact that they routinely withhold results of clinical trials on prescription drugs. That's right, Regulators do not have access to "all available" information from clinical trials. It is suggested that Pharma companies release approximately...
Openhealth Clinic saw an interesting case recently. The patient in question complains of lower back pain with aching into his left leg. It is slightly upsetting, as four years ago the patient had surgery for similar symptoms. The surgery removed a bulge in one of...
Recently, a couple of knee surgeons in Belgium have, using macroscopic dissection techniques, identified a ligamentous structure called ALL. Apparently, this existence of this structure was first suggested by a French surgeon way back in 1879! That is a seriously long time for...
Interesting debate on at the moment with the NHS considering giving breast feeding mothers £200 worth of shopping vouchers as an incentive. There is little doubt that breast feeding is hugely advantageous, and that the numbers of new mums in the UK that do, is...
A UK Cardiologist has been in the news recently. He has published an opinion piece in the British Medical Journal. He has been talking about the obsession we have for lowering Cholesterol levels by any means, including taking Statin medication. His concern is based around...
As a Registered Osteopath, I am often in the situation of speaking to patient's GPs regarding medication for their acute lower back pain. Sometimes it a very positive experience, I feel part of a "united health" team helping the patient every which way. Other times...
Just been reading a research paper on symptoms awareness in the over 50s. I'm afraid it is just confirmation of what we see at Openhealth Clinic all the time. 11,000 men and women aged 50 and over, were asked about their knowledge of diseases and...
Here at Openhealth Clinic, we are seeing more and more joint replacements. A hip is one of the more common joints to be replaced. The good news is that in the eight years between 2003 and 2011, of 400,000 operations, death rates recorded within 90...
This is good. Plug you brain in though, it isn't the usual Back Pain blog!! Telomeres are "caps" situated at the end of our chromosomes. They help prevent loss of genetic information as our cells divide. Cell division is part of the normal ageing process....