Whooping cough is a highly infectious illness which is most common and most serious in young children. It can be quite debilitating and the complication rate is high. We strongly recommend that you have your child immunised against whooping cough. Cause Whooping cough is caused by a germ (bacterium) called Bordatella pertussis. It is passed [...]
“Can you break your penis off when it is hard?” No, you can’t break it off. The penis does not really get hard like the word “hard” when you think of wood or a rock. It really gets full of blood that makes it firm so it can join with the vagina for intercourse or [...]
It worries me that I get dry. Sometimes I think I am so turned on and my husband tells me I am dry. Sometimes just when I really want to do it, it bums when he tries to go in me. I think I might be having menopause or something. I’m only thirty-two years old [...]
Super Marital Sex Rule: Super sex depends on sex roles that evolve within the relationship and are comfortable and acceptable to both partners, not predetermined by society or limited by prior experiences, fears, and a reluctance to be and feel the way one wishes. The roles should be mutually developed, never assigned or surrendered to, [...]
The rheumatic disorders are common, cause great discomfort, invalidism, and loss of working capacity. Perhaps the commonest is osteoarthritis or more correctly osteoarthrosis as it is not an inflammatory disorder. Osteoarthrosis is a degenerative joint disorder and evidence of this may be seen in joints as early as the twenties and by the forties 90 [...]
Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the large bowel which is not uncommon, affecting about 80 people per 100,000 of the population. The cause is unknown although it has been thought to be one of the auto-immune diseases where the body becomes allergic to its own tissues, producing antibodies which attach to and [...]
There are several thousand children in Australia who are locked in a world of their own. Children who do not seem to understand love and affection and who do not seem to return it. These children are autistic. The cause of this distressing condition is unknown, but current theory believes it is due to some [...]
Do you fully realise what I have just described? When given all the alternatives, many people realise that the best treatment for them is not the standard one recommended by their practitioner. Why is this so? It is simply because the person with exclusive and unique knowledge is not the practitioner but the patient. Never [...]
The other disadvantage of progestogen is that it may negate some of the advantages of oestrogen in preventing disease of the arteries. Oestrogen appears to reduce fats and cholesterols that circulate in the blood, and progestogen may increase them. So, as long as you need to take progestogen, you might not be getting the lowered [...]
Endometrial resection and ablation were introduced in the late 1970s in the US and are now routine procedures in many hospitals. Many tens of thousands of the procedures are performed worldwide each year. The speed with which the techniques have been taken up by medicine has surprised and shocked many people who say that fundamental [...]