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Aysha Mendes

Freelance journalist specialising in healthcare, psychology and nursing

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The power of placebo

Interestingly, a UK study conducted in 2013 found that 97% of 783 surveyed GPs have prescribed a placebo to patients at some point in their careers, and that prescription of placebos, such as sugar...

Smoking cessation in 2019

Encouragingly, smokers in Great Britain are on the decline, as an increasing number of people are attempting and succeeding at quitting (Office for National Statistics, 2018). Nonetheless, the overall...

How will a no-deal Brexit impact medicines in the UK?

According to the Minister of State for Health and Social Care, Stephen Hammond, the storage for medicine stockpiles in the event that the UK withdraws from the EU on 29 March 2019 without an agreement...

Genomic medicine: past, present and future

New treatments are on the horizon as a result of ongoing advances in genomic medicine and the growing number of nurse prescribers will be at the forefront of a new generation of genomic treatments....

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