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“Nobody but poor wretches in the streets”                                                           Samuel Pepys writing of The Plague in September 1665 At 1.3 billion, China is home…

2019-nCoV is causing the epidemic in China. It is “zoonotic”, being transmissible from animals to humans, in this case from bats. It is classified as a betacoronavirus, the same group that caused the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic in 2002-2003 from civets to bats in Southern China and MERS…

With any luck we will all get “old”, some older than others, “oldest old” – 80 plus. Our physiological processes become increasingly ineffectual from our early fifties onwards. The speed of onset of senescence is notably variable: the fitter, the slower the decline, and that counts for both mind and…

Simon Fraser Campbell (1941- ) was awarded a knighthood in the 2015 New Year’s Honours List for services to chemistry. Unless you happen to be a medicinal chemist, you might not have noticed, but this is the man who discovered the major breakthrough drugs Istin amlodipine and Cardura doxazosin for…

Following the inevitable melt down of “Lucifer” over the next few weeks, violent electrical storms are predicted: these may well give rise to a further period of excessively hot weather in the UK. But today, hundreds of thousands of cold, damp, pink Brits will be stripping off on the beaches…

Here at The Wellman Clinic, we have written before about the not inconsiderable health benefits of Vitamin D, as well as the specific issue of Vitamin D deficiency currently facing the UK. As a nation, we’re not exactly renowned for blazing, glorious sunshine, and as such many of us…

Everyone knows what testosterone does – or rather, they think they know what testosterone does. It’s is most famous for causing the development of male sexual characteristics [1], but this complex hormone has a lot more to it than that. It’s actually present in women too, though in much lower…

… the short answer is no, not directly. But prostates do tend to grow larger with advancing age, so much so that they can cause really annoying LUTS (lower urinary tract symptoms) – poor urinary stream, urgency, frequency, nocturia, hesitation and dribbling. Before surgery is given a thought, GPs…

As you start making the difficult journey into your more mature years, you’ll no doubt find yourself facing a few challenges you hadn’t even considered back in your youth. The first time you realise that you really can’t stay for “just one more pint” when you know you have to…

Low testosterone is a serious problem for many men, affecting their health, wellbeing and sexual performance – and if you suffer from a testosterone deficiency, it’s important that you do something about it. But many men are put off leaping straight into testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) right away, and would…