Healthy Anti-ageing Strategies
Have you thought about how you would like to spend the last few decades of your life? Until the arrival of Anti-ageing Medicine, the fate of the ageing was mysterious, uncertain, and often bleak. The future seemed to lie in the hands of unknown forces such as fate, God, environmental factors, and genetics. When questioned, […]
Baby Checks: What Do Doctors Check For
The Health Visitor and GP will often perform the baby checks soon after the birth. Your baby will be undressed so that everything can be easily seen. The nappy is kept on for as long as possible in case of accidents – especially if you are checking a boy! In my clinical practice, I take […]
Cardiology Checks: Heart Disease is Preventable and Reversible
ROC Clinic provides a cardiac health check, specifically designed for those of South Asian origin (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka). This is achieved via a focused strategy of raising awareness of individual risk factors, through a combination of early cardiac screening and education. We also believe it is fundamental to facilitate personalized risk evaluation […]
Head Lice, Nits and Head Lice Treatments
What are Head Lice and What are Nits? Head lice are the insects that live in the hair, nits are the empty white sacs where the lice eggs have hatched from which are attached to a hair shaft using a strong glue-like substance making them difficult to remove. A usual outbreak contains about 30 lice […]
Chickenpox
Chickenpox is a highly infectious disease mainly of children under 10 years old, though it may occur at any age. The virus called Varicella Zoster causes it. Chickenpox outbreaks often follow a seasonal pattern with the most common months being from March to May. It is characterized by a temperature and a rash of red […]
A GP’s experience of Laser Eye Surgery
Don’t get me wrong – I really loved my glasses, especially as it took me about 15 years to find the perfect pair. But it was the hassle factor I didn’t like e.g. going to the gym – do I waste a pair of contact lenses for only an hour’s use or sweat it out […]
