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The ‘joys’ and perils of homeschooling in lockdown.

Many of us with school age children will have experienced the peculiar ‘delight’ of having to homeschool our children during lockdown.    For the majority of us, whose only stress used to involve the dropping off and picking up, ensuring their uniform was clean and fitted, together with attendance at parents’ evenings, being responsible for […]

The downsides of being manly in COVID-19

Since the coronavirus pandemic started, we’ve all heard of how children are disproportionately protected from severe disease and then we started hearing that adult women were more protected than adult men from severe disease. [Guan WJ, Ni ZY, Hu Y, Liang WH, Ou CQ, et al. Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 in China. N […]

Allergy to taekwondo

Once upon a time we had one child and we enrolled him as a toddler in various activity clubs in the area to get him out and socialising with other toddlers and also to get me out and socialising with other mums.  I don’t think this is an uncommon thing in modern times.  Now we […]

Advances in skin cancer chemoprevention

Dry January, Veganuary…, it’s been a bit of a quiet month for us with many an evening tucked up on the sofa watching a brief something on Netflix.  On the recommendation of certain work colleagues (and even the eldest of my children – blush!), we were directed towards a short Netflix series called The Witcher. […]

Antibiotics in our food?

This is the month of Brexit, whereupon Boris Johnson can now pass the legislation required to implement his withdrawal agreement so that Britain can exit the European Union on January 31st.  Thereafter, trade agreements need to sorted out to ensure that goods and services can enter and leave the UK as smoothly as possible. I’m […]

Every cloud has a silver lining…

What did 2019 hold for you?  Was it a good year or a dreadful year?  For us, as I’m sure it has been for most people, it’s been a real mixed bag with highs and lows but you know, when there are hard times, it is always helpful to remember all the things that are […]

What’s new in rosacea?

Having to do a talk to local GPs about rosacea does focus the mind somewhat on this pretty prevalent skin condition.  It was also helpful to see that the October 2019 issue of the British Journal of Dermatology had a study from Belgium on the condition. What is rosacea? Rosacea is typically characterised by easy […]