by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
If our bodies were indeed identical machines rather like the images on my website treatment would be simple, straightforward and unvaried – like a mechanic mending your car. Unfortunately this is not the case, and my job as an endocrinologist is to help along...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
In January 2014, by way of tackling gestational diabetes, the Preventive Services Task Force in the USA announced that it agreed that all women in America should be screened for the condition when they are 24 weeks pregnant. So where do we stand in the UK? ...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
When a thyroid gland is enlarged it causes a visible swelling on the front of the neck this is called a goitre. Most of these are painless although some may cause difficulty in swallowing, difficulty in breathing or hoarseness. The vast majority of goitres in...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Despite levothyroxine being the treatment of choice for those with an underactive thyroid there are few guidelines in term of timing. Patients are usually advised that the drug should be taken on an empty stomach and preferable 30 minutes before breakfast. But...
by main | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Osteoporosis is recognised as a common disease of major importance in day to day health care. It is a disease of our ageing Western civilisation and its consequences – fractured wrist, vertebra or hip – are associated with chronic illness and indeed death....
