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Heart & Lung

Déjà vu?

In the 21st century, tobacco consumption will kill a billion people if not tackled seriously. Due to the global population…

The Wonderful Uses of Asbestos – Amazing Inventions | British Pathé

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxfZSEboVM4   A look at how asbestos is formed and at the various fireproof goods it can be used to…

Cure for IPF – a real hope

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating disease which occurs when tissue deep inside the lungs becomes thick and scarred. This…

ME: The truth about exercise and CBT

Would any doctor continue to prescribe a drug which they had been told would benefit 20 per cent of patients…

Protect yourself from heart disease

There are certain things that you can’t help, that increase your risk of getting heart disease. These are: Getting older: All the…

Circulation: the gender divide

It's a common phenomenon; a man complains he’s feeling too hot and throws off the duvet while his female partner burrows…

Looking for lung cancer

Lung cancer has very few symptoms at early stage and many people dismiss it as a possibility. We know that…

Taking heart about breathlessness

When a patient comes to see me complaining of unexplained breathlessness, different possibilities immediately go through my mind. The first…

Asthma – are we too clean?

Allergic disease accounts for 10 per cent of the GP prescribing budget and the incidence of asthma has reached epidemic proportions. So…

Heat treatment for asthma

People with severe asthma can benefit from a procedure called bronchial thermoplasty which uses blasts of heat to cut asthma attacks…

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