Few treatments are as effective as oestrogen, but if oestrogen is not for you, then what else can you do? Firstly, try not to let your doctor prescribe tranquillisers, sedatives or anti-depressants; they don’t relieve die hot flushes and night sweats, and they may make you feel much worse. Controlling or preventing hot flushes is [...]

Smoking endangers heart health, as well as having a detrimental effect on our bones. If you are a twenty-cigarette-a-day smoker, you will suffer more from atherosclerosis (narrowing and plugging of arteries) than comparable non-smokers. You also have double or triple die risk of sustaining a crippling or fatal heart attack than someone of the same [...]

What is hypnosis? The story of hypnosis started a few hundred years ago. The first record of the use of hypnosis on patients has to be that of Dr Franz Mesmer. He graduated from medical school with honours in 1765. He practiced first in Vienna and later in Paris. Pierre Janet, in his book Psychological [...]