Health

I would like to tell you about a special woman called Eunice Eichler. She died in March, without much fanfare, as she lived. But to...

My fellow trekker Eric staggered into Gorak Shep about two in the afternoon. This was the last staging post before Everest Base Camp and he...

I weighed myself the other day. The scales said “ahem” kilos. Then I worked out my BMI and found it to be slightly north of...

If you see an old grey-haired guy wandering up your street, don’t ring the nearest rest home. It’s probably me. I am, I’m proud to...

Dr Peter Hall About 15 percent of my consultations have a mental health component, including drug and alcohol issues. This is a very significant figure...

In a previous column I wrote about what constitutes a good death. This time I want to talk about the thing that hopefully precedes this,...

I started hearing about the Zika virus at travel conferences years ago, and felt glad that it was a far away disease that I would...

“Everybody is normal – until you get to know them,” the saying goes; or, in medicine, everybody is normal until you’ve done enough tests to...

Ill health does not happen conveniently between the hours of nine am and five pm on weekdays! More often it’s in the middle of the...

Natural remedies can be very safe and effective if used correctly. However, there is a misconception that all things natural are safe. Colloidal silver is...