If you had a premature menopause, especially as the result of the removal of both ovaries, and either can’t or won’t take HRT, then you should take steps to reduce your chances of getting osteoporosis. The two main medical treatments currently available for osteoporosis that don’t involve oestrogen are calcitonin and etidronate. Etidronate. Marketed as [...]

Fluid is sometimes used in the pelvis before a hysteroscopy to separate the abdominal organs. Could you explain why fluid is used instead of gas and the reasons why one or the other may be used? Do they have any adverse effects? The procedure of hysteroscopy can be used for diagnosis or treatment, but in [...]

The power of suggestion. Whilst in the hypnotic state, the person’s awareness is narrowed but is heightened and sharpened. So the suggestions of the hypnotist are totally received with minimal rejection. There are some very good hypnotic subjects who can go into a very deep hypnotic state. They can see imagined objects suggested to them [...]