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ROC Health: Get ready for new private hospital in Westhill
ROC is proud to announce a major milestone for a start-up healthcare business, whilst celebrating 10 years of success this August. Having been operating in Aberdeen for the past six years, the Westhill based private health clinic has begun its transition from a primarily Outpatient Private GP, Specialist and Occupational Health Centre to a new, […]
Coronavirus: 15 Tips on How to Avoid It
Coronavirus: 15 Tips on How to Avoid It! The outbreak of Covid-19 is causing increased anxieties worldwide. Huge steps are being taken by different governments and international health organisations to try and contain it.But what to do on an individual basis to protect yourself? Daily preventive actions to help prevent the spread of any respiratory […]
Why I became an Acupuncturist and why I am still passionate and enthusiastic about my career 19 years on.
My first experience of acupuncture was when my daughter became ill with a post-viral condition at the age of 15 following about of glandular fever. At a critical point in her schooling, she was permanently tired. She suffered with debilitating migraines and was showing worrying signs of depression. Not much was known about chronic fatigue […]
Cervical Cancer Screening Update
What’s new in Cervical Cancer Screening! Back in February 2019 we described how the national cervical cancer screening programme was moving away from traditional smear tests to a slightly different method of testing – testing for the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Following on from this, a self-sampling kit for HPV testing has now become […]
It is coming: Nutritional Psychiatry. How modern mental health approaches miss on the essential: our diet
“Healthy Mind in Healthy Body” was a literary quote going around late first and second century AD.Therefore, the concept isn’t new at all. Perhaps in the run after evidence-based medicine, where the benefit of any traditional remedy or approach got challenged, overturned or minimised due to lack of ‘evidence’, doctors focused exclusively on medication as […]
Bodystat for Body Composition Evaluation
Whether it is part of a medical or a measure of fitness, Bodystat is the most reliable, accurate and portable Bio-electrical Impedance analysis (BIA) device to deliver your body composition measurements (fat, muscle, and cellular fluid distribution). Bioelectrical impedance analysis has replaced skin fold determination as the main tool to clinically evaluate body composition.Typical BIA […]
The Challenges of Menopause and HRT in 2020
We Have Come A Long Way… The use of HRT has had various highs and lows over the 25 years since Dr Johnston started practicing in the menopause field. Within the last few years, people have felt freer and more able to speaking publicly about menopause. In particular, the celebrities Lorraine Kelly, Andrea MacLean from […]
What are the latest treatments for hay fever?
With hay fever season fast approaching, I wanted to review this condition and discuss avoidance strategies as well as seeing what common treatment options are available as well as some of the newer options. Allergic to hay? The old nickname of hay fever was coined because symptoms would occur during the hay harvest from May […]
House Dust Mite Allergy – the hidden allergen in your home!
Do you wake up in the morning feeling puffy eyed, runny nose, catarrh, sneezing, coughing or wheezing? Is your eczema or asthma out of control in the winter months once the heating has been switched on? Then you could have House Dust Mite (HDM) allergy. What’s the allergen? HDMs are microscopic creatures that live in […]
Let’s look at our poo! Microbiome as a source of health or misery.
Welcome to the new frontier of medicine. It may surprise you to know that you are made up of more bugs than human cells! We have a 100 trillion bugs living in our gut. This is 10 times more than the number of body cells you have in total. These bugs are referred to as […]
