A guide to helping prepare your child to fight coughs and colds this new term

Question: Some schools believe that they do not need to worry about infections in the summer, they are just winter concerns. What would you say to this?

Dr. Ron: It is true that when schools shut down for the summer weeks, less people catch the more common highly contagious viruses like Influenza and the common cold.  But this doesn’t mean that these are ‘winter’ infections – more that children aren’t mixing with each other as much [...]

If we said to you a toilet cost $19 million (about £10 million) what would you say? Well, apart from firing an expletive or two at us, you’d probably laugh and say we’re pulling your chain.

However, NASA currently holds the title for the world’s most expensive loo on its International Space Station (ISS), as was ironically made by from S.P Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation - a Russian organisation! It comes complete with leg [...]

There are more than half a million cases of Lyme Disease worldwide each year.  The very first official cases were diagnosed in the small town of Old Lyme, Connecticut, in only 1975. Although it is suspected that Lyme Disease was prevalent across Europe under numerous aliases from the early 1990’s