Caring – providing emotional or physical help and support – for a friend, a family member or a child or partner is something that many people in the UK are currently doing. Currently there are over 6.5 million carers in … Continue reading
The number of people volunteering to give blood in the UK dropped by 40% last year when compared to numbers of new donors who were signing up a decade ago. While this isn’t a crisis yet it does mean that … Continue reading
In October last year the NHS published a report looking into the possibility of commissioning Occipital Nerve Stimulation as a treatment that can be used to help adult sufferers of intractable chronic migraines (headaches lasting for 4 hours or more … Continue reading
Every new drug or treatment in the UK that is prescribed to patients by a doctor needs first to be approved for use by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. To do this the drug needs to have first … Continue reading
Aside from the heavy emotional and physical costs that migraine attacks entail, there are also the monetary costs that migraine entails. However, in general for migrainers and those close to them the overriding wish to find a cure is a … Continue reading
We wouldn’t wish migraines on anyone; it’s not exactly something you’d ask Father Christmas for! But every cloud has a silver lining and even though the condition itself is awful, it can also teach you important things about life and … Continue reading
Anyone looking for the latest news from trials of migraine medications and migraine management is often met with research papers that contain swathes of technical terminology. It may well be instantly understandable if you are a scientist, but less so … Continue reading
The NHS set up by Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee in 1948 has long been one of the truly great things about the UK. With other countries around the world who are reliant on private health insurers keen to establish … Continue reading
Not so much now, but up until the late 1800s, and for hundreds of years prior to that, you’ll find that the link between religion and science was an incredibly close one. A big part of the reason for this … Continue reading