On Monday 18th December 2023, the Telegraph ran an article headed WHAT CONCUSSION CAN DO TO YOU. The author listed the symptoms – headaches or dizziness, difficulty concentrating or remembering, anxiety, low mood, fatigue and difficulty sleeping – and was absolutely silent about the worst symptom of all, which is loss of libido. Shouldn’t parents […]
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Yesterday I wrote to our MP, Chris Philp, as follows: May I ask what plans the government has made to meet the ever-increasing cost to the state of undiagnosed hypopituitarism patients? Now that NICE has at last undertaken to include the risk of post-traumatic hypopituitarism in its head injury guidance update in March, it seems
Whether the Princess was obliquely referring to her brother-in-law last week we shall never know, but one person endorses her comment wholeheartedly. John Willsher (not his real name) aged 51, a likeable and articulate clarinet player from south London, would argue strongly against the received wisdom that more men kill themselves than women because they
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Professor Louis Appleby has received a Knighthood in the 2023 New Year’s Honours listed for his ‘services to medicine and mental health’. No doubt he is being congratulated widely. However, do his services to mental health really bear close examination? He leads the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England. Such a strategy is vital to
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Head injury makes you four times more likely to die by suicide. Read more here.