Sarah Stacey Sarah’s Health Notes: Learning To Listen Research shows that what patients really want from their doctors is to feel they are being listened to. In Health Notes this week, Sarah explains why listening well is as important as talking in general life, sometimes more so. And it’s something we can all do better. Read more
Sarah Stacey Sarah’s Health Notes: Beyond Pills Campaign Medicines do people a lot of good but they can also cause harm, according to the recent National Overprescribing Review, which found that 10% of drugs are unnecessary, inappropriate or may be harmful, as I found to my cost. Read more
Sarah Stacey Sarah’s Health Notes: Why We All Need Vitamin N For Nature In Health Notes this week Sarah writes about the importance of ‘green social prescribing’, now recognised as vital to mind and body health, and sweeps her mind sparkling clean with deep immersion in a Devon gorge. Read more
Sarah Stacey Sarah’s Health Notes: The Natural Eyelash Growth Enhancer That’s Safe And Really Works Eyelash growth enhancers are Big Business but they’re not all proven safe and/or effective. Sarah reports on Natucain, a proven natural product for lashes, brows and also hair loss, and the longstanding concerns with some OTC products. Read more
Sarah Stacey Sarah's Health Notes: Hay Fever For some unlucky souls, hayfever starts early and a few are suffering already, according to reports. Read more
Sarah Stacey Sarah’s Health Notes: Supporting People With Dementia I felt inadequate that I didn’t know how to hold a conversation with my father, who was diagnosed with non-Alzheimer’s dementia in 1999, and was mostly anxious and confused. Read more
Sarah Stacey Sarah’s Health Notes: New Products For Sensitive Skin ‘Sensitive skin is one of the most reported consumer skin problems’, according to biochemist and researcher Stewart Long... Read more
Sarah Stacey Sarah's Health Notes: Macmillan Talking Cancer Podcasts I’m sitting in my office down the bottom of our garden in Dorset, looking out at the birds flitting around – a blue tit is sitting on top of a tall shrub like the king of the castle... Read more
Sarah Stacey Sarah's Health Notes: Home Remedies For Cystitis So you’re all gussied up in your LBD, and just popping to the loo before you go out…. Then it’s a real Ouch! moment, which you may recognise as a symptom of cystitis. Read more
Sarah Stacey Sarah’s Health Notes: It’s Time To Share Delicious Teatime Treats In Health Notes this week, Sarah reports on the Teatime Treats initiative from community-based campaign Share A Meal. Read more
Sarah Stacey Sarah’s Health Notes: Treating The ‘Super-Cold’ A particularly nasty cold and cough is striking down even apparently healthy chaps nationwide (including members of our families and friends). Read more
Sarah Stacey Sarah’s Health Notes: How To Treat A Wasp Sting In this week’s Health Notes, Sarah reports her encounter with a grumpy wash, her subsequent mild allergic reaction and what she wishes she’d known before Read more