Treatment of the month

Eye care’s a rollercoaster ride

You’re an eye specialist, and one of your patients reports that a lens in his eye - which you put in following a cataract operation - has been displaced after he was struck in the face. An outpatient... more »

Cabbage releaf

Doctors may finally be latching on to a method of reducing swelling which has been used by old wives for hundreds of years - the common-or-garden cabbage leaf. more »

No, really, anthrax is good for us

Anthrax is a deadly poison produced by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. It seems to be the preferred poison of bioterrorists, and key workers throughout the United States have been more »

Whiplash away

What is one of the most common causes of illness in the West? Diet? Contagion? Genetics? No, lawyers. more »

Defence is more important than the attack

Doctors have stumbled on the ‘X’ factor that may determine if life-threatening conditions such as heart attack prove to be fatal. It’s football. more »

Treatment notes no. 4586

A new, breakthrough study has discovered that doctors are human. As a result, they naturally view most of their patients as 'foolish, uncomprehending, hysterical or malingering'. more »

It’s only bad in parts

Drug manufacturers very much work according to the maxim of 'Waste not, want not'. Take thalidomide, for instance - and, in fact, many people in developing nations still do. more »

Holy clot-busters! it’s batman!

The story of Dracula may have to be rewritten, according to new research. Far from being a blood-sucking wraith, he could be a benevolent healthcare worker. more »

You’re driving me . . . functional

As the stand-up comic puts it, it’s the way you tell ‘em. Doctors tend to think that most of their patients are mad, and imagining their symptoms. more »

Warts come to a sticky end

Duct tape is handy for those heavy-duty odd jobs around the home, such as taping down a tile or a loose carpet end - or removing a wart. more »

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