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…
Heart & Lung
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…
Coming up for air
I would like to thank Public Health England and the British Lung Foundation, in helping to raise awareness about the symptoms…
Breathless sleep
Sleep apnoea is the most common sleep disorder in the UK, affecting around one million people. It happens when the…