In This Issue

• Take two aspirins and (don’t) ring me in the morning!
• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome: MERS-CoV
• Heart Center

Take two aspirins and (don’t) ring me in the morning! by Dr.Iain Corness

The medical “advice” to take two aspirins and ring again in the morning has been around for many years.  Unfortunately, we have found that it may not be the best medical advice when dealing with some of the more important acute medical conditions.

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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome: MERS-CoV

Coronavirus infection 2012 or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is one of the MERS Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) strains.

Heart Center

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In This Issue

• MERS-CoV – another public health threat?
• Updates“Dengue Fever” 2015 Increased number of patients in 15-24 year age group and students!
• Internal Medicine Center

MERS-CoV – another public health threat? by Dr.Iain Corness

Surgeons can be the ‘prima donnas’ of medicine, if you like.  It is the surgeons who get the headlines in the newspapers.  It is the surgeons who are the stars in movies and TV.  Who can remember the irascible surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt (Dr. In The House, 1954) or the young surgeon Dr. Kildare (1961)?  Slightly more recent, the American surgeons in M*A*S*H?

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Updates“Dengue Fever” 2015 Increased number of patients in 15-24 year age group and students!

Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening programs have been implemented across the word. Hearing loss occurs often enough in the general population.

 Internal Medicine Center

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In This Issue

• Advances in Surgery – our thanks to who?
• My Baby Hearing
• Anesthesiology Center

Advances in Surgery – our thanks to who? by Dr.Iain Corness

Surgeons can be the ‘prima donnas’ of medicine, if you like.  It is the surgeons who get the headlines in the newspapers.  It is the surgeons who are the stars in movies and TV.

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My Baby Hearing

Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening programs have been implemented across the word. Hearing loss occurs often enough in the general population

Anesthesiology Center

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In This Issue

• Mayday Mayday Mayday!
• Healthy eating to prevent or control diabetes
• Breast Self Examination (BSE) made easy!

Mayday Mayday Mayday! by Dr.Iain Corness

I was reminded of the famous distress call Mayday Mayday Mayday when I sat down to write this item a few days after May 1, also known as May Day for the labour movement.

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Healthy eating to prevent or control diabetes

1. Eat a variety of foods from each of the five food groups and maintain proper weight:

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In This Issue

• Are you going to be stoned?
• Air Pollution May Be Linked to Higher Rates of Kidney Disease
• Urology Center

Are you going to be stoned? by Dr.Iain Corness

We are in the middle of an extremely hot season.  This is something we can expect every year and has nothing to do with the so-called “global warming”.

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Air Pollution May Be Linked to Higher Rates of Kidney Disease

A study from the University of Michigan found the prevalence of kidney disease was greater in areas of the United States that have worse air quality.

Urology Center

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In This Issue

• Looking after “her indoors”!
• Instructions for preparation for health check-up
• Health Promotion Center

Looking after “her indoors”! by Dr.Iain Corness

If you come from the UK you will understand the reference to “her indoors”.  An often used name for one’s wife.

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Instructions for preparation for health check-up

Lack of sleep may cause abnormal results such as blood pressure, heart beat, and body temperature. The doctor may not be able to assess if any change is a real abnormality.

Health Promotion Center

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In This Issue

• Counting Sheep
• Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
• Neuroscience center

Counting Sheep by Dr.Iain Corness

Have you ever fallen asleep at your desk?  More than once?  Regularly?  And you put it down to the fact that you are getting older and working very hard?  You may not be correct!  It may be a sign of poor sleep, caused by Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)

Sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder that occurs when a person’s breathing is interrupted during sleep.

Neuroscience center

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In This Issue

• Breast Cancer 
• Cancer prevention
• Breast Center 

Breast Cancer by Dr.Iain Corness

I was reading some clinical reports on death rates for women.  Breast cancer is the commonest cancer of women and is the second most likely cause of death.  That makes early discovery of breast cancer very important.

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Cancer prevention

At least one-third of all cancer cases are preventable. Prevention offers the most cost-effective long-term strategy for the control of cancer.

Neuroscience center

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In This Issue

• Slip me some giggle juice!
• What should you know before filler injection?
• Anesthesiology Center 

Slip me some giggle juice! by Dr.Iain Corness

The advances in surgery in the past 150 years have come, not through surgical technique, but on anesthetics.  Sure, there have been enormous strides in the ‘art’ of surgery, such as the sleeve gastrectomy done here as a minimally invasive procedure (keyhole surgery)

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Filler injection is a popular cosmetic treatment used to smooth out unwanted wrinkles, fuller lips, cheeks augmentation or volume restoration and enhancement

Anesthesiology Center

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