Modern Medicine
We are in the wet season. There is no doubt about that. As I write it is bucketing down outside, but being tropical rain, it is warm and all over…
When should you start annual mammograms?
Friday, 19 August 2011 Issue Vol. XIX No. 33 By Dr. Iain Corness
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now recommends mammograms for women beginning at age 40.
There is an unfortunate idea that check-up packages are only for men. After all, men have a higher incidence of heart disease, get cancer of the prostate and lung cancer,…
Late-onset Diabetes Mellitus, sometimes called Type 2 Diabetes, is a disease which is increasing, in line with many sufferers’ increasing waistline. While the tendency to become a diabetic may be…
Medicine and the practice of it is a very serious business. Every time a doctor gives an opinion, the medico concerned has to be ready to back it up with…
AAA stands for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, and as I have often pointed out, we doctors love acronyms. I am sure that the education bodies decreed years ago that the medical…
Have you ever wondered just why Thai ladies cannot talk quietly together? Women’s conversational Thai is a language shouted at full volume, with everyone talking at the same time. For…
BPPV - common but often misunderstood
Friday, 08 July 2011 Issue Vol. XIX No. 27 By Dr. Iain Corness
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is a very distressing condition, and much more common than you imagine. If you have it, after you move in a particular way, you feel…
Cancer research - why it is so difficult?
Friday, 01 July 2011 Issue Vol. XIX No. 26 By Dr. Iain Corness
I addressed the Pattaya City Expats Club a couple of weeks ago on the subject of ‘Living Wills’ (and I hope you have registered yours), but in the very lively…
SE Asia has now joined the modern European spas with the opening of the IceLAB at the Bangkok Hospital Pattaya. This Cryo-Spa in Pattaya is the first of its type…
“Sugar Diabetes” is a serious ailment, which can arise for many reasons, and can affect many systems in the human body. Diabetes, often just called “sugar” by some patients, is…
The Euro IceLAB Cryo-Spa – Is it for you?
Friday, 10 June 2011 Issue Vol. XIX No. 23 By Dr. Iain Corness
The range of conditions that are improved by a therapy course in the IceLAB Cryo-Spa is nothing short of amazing. The other amazing feature is that there are no drugs…
Cancer is from what you eat - or is it?
Friday, 03 June 2011 Issue Vol. XIX No. 22 By Dr. Iain Corness
We cannot live without food and water. However, it may interest you to know that you can do without food for 14 days, but you can only do without water…
The only European Cryo-Spa in Asia has just been opened in the Bangkok Hospital Pattaya. Using a scientifically proven procedure, the new spa has been shown to be beneficial for…
I was stopped by a chap in the hospital lobby who was kind enough to ask about my dear old Mum. I hadn’t mentioned her for a while and he…
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