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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In This Issue

• Silly Phyllis season?
• Digital Mammogram with Tomosynthesis
• Breast Center

Silly Phyllis season? by Dr.Iain Corness

Valentines Day is here again, and once more the do-gooders will be issuing warnings (and even condoms?) to love-sick swains.  However, I don’t think us chaps should take the full burden of blame in the horizontal folk dancing stakes.  After all, it does take two to tango.

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Digital Mammogram with Tomosynthesis

A specific type of breast imaging that can produce results in 2D and 3D at the same time, taking about 10 seconds for each image and get a good

Breart Center

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In This Issue

• If you’ve got a $10 head, wear a $10 helmet!
• Head Injury
• Emergency Medical Service Center

If you’ve got a $10 head, wear a $10 helmet!

The slogan “If you’ve got a $10 head, wear a $10 helmet!” was the advertising catch-cry of the Bell helmet company about 50 years ago.  To keep it simple and to bring that to today and to Thailand, I will change that to “If you’ve got a B. 100 head, wear a B. 100 helmet!”

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Head Injury

In patients who have no symptoms that indicate any severity of the head injury need not be admitted to the hospital similarly

Emergency Medical Service Center

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In This Issue

• Are e-cigarettes the answer?
• Nine Risk Factors in Cerebrovascular accidents (Brain Stroke)
• Ong-Ard Kosintarajit , M.D.

Are e-cigarettes the answer?

2015, January, hope you made it!  Unfortunately some of your friends didn’t.  Cancer was one of the major reasons for people dying last year, and tobacco was up there, top of the list of causes.

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Nine Risk Factors in Cerebrovascular accidents (Brain Stroke)

Cerebrovascular accident (CVA), paralysis or hemiplegia is the third ranking cause of death after heart disease and cancer. CVA is often found in older people and in anyone who has the risk factors shown below.

 Name : Ong-Ard Kosintarajit , M.D.

 Specialty : Internal Medicine – Chest (Pulmonary Disease, Lungs)

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