Healthcare Blog

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  Great New Name, Same Great service

  This is a hugely exciting year for the evolution of Medicalternative. With lots of exciting growth and development underway, we have made the decision to make some changes – but with the SAME range of exceptional services provided by the SAME fantastic staff under the SAME guidance and development of Dr Lyndsey Myskow and Business […]

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  Mental Health in the Workplace

  Mental health issues can not only affect people’s personal lives, it can also have a significant impact on their performance at work. Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week, which took place between the 12th and 18th May, mental health charity Mental Health Foundation revealed that almost one in five people from around the UK feels anxious a lot […]

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  Stop suffering from unwanted hair

  If you suffer from unwanted hair, then the IPL™ (Intense Pulsed Light) system from Palomar® could very well be the solution you have been looking for. The IPL™ system, which uses highly controlled flashes of light that are selectively absorbed by hair follicles lying below the surface of the skin, can stop the growth of unwanted hair […]

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  Protect yourself against malaria

  Today is World Malaria Day, an awareness campaign organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to examine the progress made towards malaria control and elimination. Global efforts to control and eliminate malaria have saved an estimated 3.3 million lives since 2000, reducing malaria mortality rates by 42% globally, however malaria still kills an estimated 627 000 people […]

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  Offshore Medicals at YourGP

  At YourGP, we offer Occupational Health services in addition to our existing range of services, combining medical experience with knowledge of many different working conditions. Dr Marikie Benade, who is an occupational health physician with more than 12 years’ experience in the field, leads the delivery of our corporate health and occupational health assessments, including offshore medicals. […]

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  Rename Medicalternative – and win a London Theatre Break

  Established in 2003 by a team of GPs committed to delivering healthcare in the best way possible, Medicalternative has since become one of Scotland’s leading private medical practices. However, over the last 11 years or so, we have often found that people assume that we only offer complementary or alternative medicine, the term for medical products […]

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  Helping to stop TB

  Every year, March 24th is marked by World TB Day, which aims to raise awareness of tuberculosis, an epidemic that causes the deaths of nearly one-and-a-half million people each year, mostly in developing countries. TB is a potentially lethal infection caused by a bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis, and World TB Day commemorates the day in 1882 […]

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  Yellow Fever Centre at YourGP

  Yellow Fever is such a serious illness that we feel a repeat blog is appropriate. The Yellow Fever vaccine is available at YourGP’s specialist travel clinic. A mosquito bite that delivers a potentially fatal viral infection in certain areas of the world, predominantly Central and South America and Sub-saharan Africa. If you are planning a holiday […]

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  Helping to Prevent and Treat Cancer

  You may have noticed that yesterday was World Cancer Day 2014, an initiative of Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), where its members and partners unite together in the fight against the global cancer epidemic. Here at YourGP, we continually do our bit to help focus on Target 5 of the World Cancer Declaration: ‘Reduce stigma and […]