Mature Times - Remedies & Treatments

An audience with Ursula Andress

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:00:56 +0000

From Bond girl to osteoporosis victim… as Ursula Andress reminds Tony Watts, it’s 45 years since she memorably walked out of the sea in Doctor No. But she still has the old Hollywood charisma, and now she has a cause to champion.

Caution urged on new "breakthrough" cancer cure

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:36:51 +0100

The media have been quick to claim that recent trials of the new drug, abiraterone, are a "breakthrough cure for prostate cancer" - a condition causing the deaths of some 10,000 men every year. However, while everyone hopes for its success, the drug has only been tested on 21 men so far - all with advanced, aggressive prostate cancer.

New treatment hope for cancer

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:18:38 +0100

Cancer treatments have become more and more effective with each passing year. Indeed, many people reading this article will themselves be “cancer survivors”. Now comes news of a radical new treatment - one based on boosting our own immune systems. Jayne Warren asks the experts: can it really work?

Poor skin? Low energy? Could this be the natural answer?

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:37:08 +0100

Can you really be free from the burden of low energy and poor skin - naturally? Like many people, you may just live with it; maybe you’ve tried everything and given up. Well if you’ve had enough of that constant itchiness or red sores, or your get-up-and-go has just got-up-and-gone, you could try an exclusive natural herbal tonic, first made in Austria back in 1922.

The best medicine for older people!

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:23:27 +0100

A trial at a care home in Suffolk has pointed to dramatic improvements being achievable in people's health - when they take sufficient amounts of water each day.

Regular tipple may curb risk of rheumatoid arthritis

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:36:39 +0100

Flying in the face of endless media hype and government campaigns about rising alcoholism in the UK - especially among middle aged women - is a refreshing piece of new research: alcohol cuts the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis by up to 50%.

Disabled could face jail with changes to cannabis ruling

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:28:33 +0100

Things could get even worse for the thousands of disabled people who use cannabis for chronic pain relief if Home Secretary Jacqui Smith reclassifies the drug from class C to class B "in the interests of public health". The reclassification would mean disabled people facing a maximum prison sentence for five years.

New drug trial for older people affected by serious blister disease

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:49:25 +0100

It’s itchy, very painful and potentially fatal, but at last a new clinical trial is hoping to give sufferers of a rare skin condition which effects elderly people a safe and effective treatment - and researchers are looking for volunteers to take part in the UK.

Blitz victim sees again - after 66 years

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:49:16 +0100

John Gray lost the sight in his right eye back in 1941 when he was on duty, aged 20, as a firewatcher. Now, miraculously, after more than six decades, it has just been restored.

Giving up the weed? It's easier in retirement!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:43:54 +0000

Anyone who had tried and failed knows just how hard kicking the nicotine habit can be - but new research from the Peninsula Medical School in South West England has shown that the point of retirement is one of the most effective times to quit.

Medical tourism - now more than cosmetic surgery

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:23:46 +0000

Going overseas to receive medical treatment used to be reserved for cosmetic surgery. No longer. Increasingly patients - 50,000 a year - are patients are travelling as far as India, Malaysia and South Africa for treatment, although countries closer to home such are Hungary and Poland are also emerging as popular destinations.

Ladies - don't wait for your knees to wear out!

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:39:05 +0000

Women wait longer to pursue knee-replacement surgery than men do, but by postponing surgery until they can no longer stand the pain, they risk putting their mobility and quality of life on hold indefinitely.

Could statins be made freely available to help diabetics?

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:46:12 +0000

New research published in The Lancet is urging that all of the UK's 2.5 million diabetes sufferers should receive cholesterol-busting drugs - regardless of whether they have signs of heart disease.

Dehydration: a cause of falls?

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:49:46 +0000

Dehydration has been identified as a critical risk factor for falls in older people because it can lead to a deterioration in mental state and an increase in the likelihood of dizziness and fainting.

Prostate cancer: radiation seeds less invasive and preferred by men under 60

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:21:44 +0000

Radiation seed implants (brachytherapy) are just as effective at curing prostate cancer in aged 60 and younger as they are in older men, according to a new, large study by the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.