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NB Blog - Unscheduled bleeding on HRT

NB Blog - Unscheduled bleeding on HRT image
Dr Rob Walker
22nd May 2024

Sometimes in General Practice you’ve got to get out of your comfort zone and dive head long into an area with which you are both uncomfortable and unfamiliar. It’s the nature of being an expert generalist...

‘How are your periods?’ A simple question to find a complex condition.

‘How are your periods?’ A simple question to find a complex condition. image
Dr Laura Darby
13th December 2023

Naga Munchetty, a well known newsreader and journalist, has been raising the public profile of endometriosis through a combination of radio broadcasts and written articles. Additionally, she has given...

Menopause management – it doesn’t have to be this complicated

Menopause management – it doesn’t have to be this complicated image
Dr Siobhan Becker
29th November 2023

When NICE released its 2015 Menopause guidelines1, the direction of travel seemed pretty clear – a generation of women had missed out on HRT, largely as a result of the WHI trial2, and it was setting out...

We need to talk about periods

We need to talk about periods image
Dr Rob Walker
11th May 2023

I’m sure most of us find it extraordinary that in 2023 periods and their impact can still be regarded as a taboo subject by many. However, there have been positive steps to help redress this in the last...

Back to the nineties? Hormonal contraception and breast cancer

Back to the nineties? Hormonal contraception and breast cancer image
Dr Simon Curtis
30th March 2023

GPs of a ‘certain age’ remember well the panic after the Lancet paper in 1996 that showed a link between the combined pill and breast cancer. In combination with a health alert the year before linking...

‘It’s your hormones, love’ ‘Oh, someone’s got their period’

‘It’s your hormones, love’ ‘Oh, someone’s got their period’ image
Dr Siobhan Becker
3rd March 2022

Jokes about women and their hormones are as old as the hills and generally about as welcome as a sharp object in the eye. Nonetheless, there is a mass of evidence demonstrating the fundamental role that...

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