The new shingles vaccine seems to be a huge success! The shingles vaccine is proving to be very effective. A recent paper in the Lancet looked at uptake of the virus by patients between 2013 and 2016. 72% of eligible patients requested the vaccine in the first year and around 60% in theRead more
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BBC Horizons’ fascinating programme, ‘Can my brain cure my body’, looked at the impact of the placebo affect and that of longer consultations. They looked at a population in Blackpool with backpain. Staggeringly, one in five people in Blackpool suffer disabling back pain. They set out to see if fake pills couldRead more
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