For the average citizen evaluating the claims made for cure all - or even improve all - health products and procedures has always been difficult. Not only is it an area in which we have minimal expertise but most of us have a vested interest in finding a miracle intervention that …
Prescription Drugs
Transforming Primary Healthcare
There is no doubt that responsible GPs are worried about the state of the NHS, primary care, secondary care, the relentless growth in patients with autoimmune and mental health conditions, and, and, and..... And that many of them are fronting or taking part in initiatives, often …
Cough medicines that include Pholcodine can cause anaphylaxis
I was reminded last week by an excellent post on Ruth Holroyd's What Allergy? blog of the Pholcodine issue which, 25 years after it was first discussed, has still not been resolved in the UK. Pholcodine is a drug that is to be found in a wide range of cough medicines. …
Beyond Pills – kill over prescribing
'Social prescribing' - prescribing excercise, dance, writing classes, diets, yoga, singing with a choir, gardening or almost anything else that the patient fancies - instead of another drug prescription has been the buzz treatment on the NHS for several years now. And when you …
The Pfizer booster jab is safe for those with anaphylaxis
The BSACI, the Anaphylaxis Campaign and Allergy UK have all confirmed that the Pfizer and the Moderna booster vaccines is safe even if: you have any type of FOOD allergy (including anaphylaxis) you have had anaphylaxis to WASP or BEE stings you have an identified …