Facts show that many American men spend close to a billion dollars per year trying to re-grow hair. There are many myths and misunderstandings about baldness and losing hair however. Some of these include baldness coming from the mother’s side of the family which isn’t true. It can come from either side of the family. [...]

There are many tips and tricks that people advise for curing a common cold. The best thing to do really is get plenty of sleep and rest. If you still don’t feel good it is recommended to drink plenty of fluids, water is best and take a recommended dose of paracetamol. At night time you [...]

Training for a long distance run can be quite important to some people and getting everything right on the day will come naturally to you if you prepare properly. Grdaually building up to the final day will help you relax, get used to the distance and help you breathe properly. Most importantly though is warming [...]

Free texts are always a must when it comes to medicine. That is such a strange statement but I learned recently that certain hospitals around the country are giving families or patients free texts when they buy other products in the hospital. Lets say your in the hospital for long term care and you are [...]

There is a certain generation of people who refuse to play the game of squash because they’re afraid that they’ll snap the racket against the wall while playing a shot and then somehow drive it through their own neck. This seems a strange fear for many different people to collectively hold. It’s a pretty unlikely [...]

Continuing our theme of sporting ailments, let’s deal with ‘getting hit in the face by a cricket ball’. Those who have never played cricket will be unaware of the severity of this sporting injury. Those who have played will be wincing. Cricket balls are close cousins of rocks. My dad got hit in the face [...]

Like running with shin splints, this is a massive no-no. If you’ve got any sort of muscular problem, no matter how minor, let it rest for a couple of days before embarking on any significant training. I had a torn hamstring and I ran with it for a couple of months. I was training for [...]

I tell you one thing I hate: acronyms. People use them without knowing what they stand for and pretty soon no-one remembers and then people use the acronym incorrectly and all meaning is lost. You should always know what the letters stand for. DOMS stands for ‘delayed onset of muscle soreness’. This is the phenomenon [...]

Shin splints are no one thing. It’s actually just a term that’s used to refer to several different problems which all result in similar pain on the front of the lower leg. I can’t tell you which kind I suffered, but it was as a result of overuse. I did a lot of running and [...]

In the event of a potential health emergency most of us would consider going to accident and emergency (A&E) at our nearest hospital. But that’s just the point. A&E is for just that. If your not bleeding to death and your demise is not imminent what should you do? Well the National Health Service (NHS) [...]