It’s been nearly four months since I wrote about my treatment of Mandy and her recovery from POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) and I’m glad to report that it’s all good news. There’s been

It's been just another seven days but already more encouraging results are coming in from my POTS and homeopathy study.  Patient 6: This sweet natured and gentle woman from Wales is in her early 30s

POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) is an illness which is currently poorly resolved with conventional medicine but little is known about whether homeopathy can provide a chink of light. Last

Call it 'Aunt Flo', 'moon time', 'girl flu', 'red badge of honour', 'crimson tide' or what you will, if you're suffering during your menstrual cycle, it's time to take charge. Anyone can benefit from learning

By the age of 60, one in five UK women will have had a hysterectomy (one in three in the USA), with around 60,000 women yearly having the procedure performed on the NHS. If you add up the cost to the country,

I've never been to Ottawa, Illinois but if I do, I'll be sure to give Allen Park there a visit. One of my patients has much to thank it for. And it taught me a valuable lesson.  Allen Park is host

Last year a young woman booked in for a Skype appointment. That's nothing unusual, except that on checking her address I found out she lived but 10 minutes away from my office by bus. I jumped to

I'm loving the news this week.  Just like they said but a few months ago about ear infections, the NHS declares today "No more antibiotics for throat infections!... If you've got a tonsillitis, like

So Boris Johnson, the UK Foreign Secretary, is related to a 300 year old mummy that was recently dug up from under a church in Switzerland, we heard this week. Genetic testing revealed that she was apparently

In an equally heartbreaking and inspiring interview today on the UK's favourite radio station BBC Radio 4, Tessa Jowell MP called for more collaboration between medical departments across the world to

My son hasn't had a fever since he was three years old when a dose of chicken pox sent his temperature racing up to 102F (38.8C). Then on Christmas Day just past, nearly 10 years on, he succumbed to the

This week I saw a patient who had been making remarkable progress over the last five months for a chronic condition called POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) until two weeks ago. Suddenly

If you've ever dislocated a shoulder or other joint then you know how painful it can be. For those born with hypermobile joints or collagen disorders such as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (POTS) this can be a