Jo Waters

Most nights as he lies down to sleep, Matt Ridout is overwhelmed by distracting noises – all of them inside his head.
These include the whooshing sound of his heartbeat, a pulse in his ears, a high-pitched ringing noise – and the bizarre sound of his eyeballs moving side to side, or up and down.
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Taste changes (known as dysgeusia) including blandness, saltiness, bitterness, a metallic taste, or an aversion to meat, are common in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
“Around one in three people with kidney disease is affected by taste changes,” says Dr Graham Lipkin, a consultant nephrologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and chair of trustees at Kidney Care UK.
“People often mention how their taste has changed during clinic consultations, particularly those on dialysis or...

Gout is a painful form of inflammatory arthritis caused by a build-up of uric acid (urate), a waste product produced when the body breaks down purines, a chemical compound found in food but also made in the body.
One in 10 people with kidney disease have gout, and about 1 in 4 people with gout have CKD.
“Uric acid crystals accumulate in the soft tissue and joints, causing painful attacks of inflammation. If left untreated, these crystals can develop into tophi – hard lumps of uric acid crysta...

Article on opiods.

Abby Johnson was in agonising pain from gallstones, so when her GP prescribed codeine, she took it without a second thought.
But within a year the 35-year-old was so hooked on the painkiller that she would use her month's prescription – 240 tablets – in just three days.
She would then trawl local pharmacies to buy more.
'I was also buying them from multiple online pharmacies – spending hundreds of pounds a month and getting into debt,' says Abby, a former GP practice manager who lives in Glou...

We all know there are some medications you can’t drink alcohol with or can only take with food. But many of us don’t realise that many everyday foods can also affect how well our prescription drugs work.
Everything from bananas and grapefruit to smelly cheeses, salami and leafy greens can potentially have an impact on how medications work.
The interactions can be particularly hard to avoid if you are taking multiple meds – as do almost half of people aged 65 or over. The numbers taking more t...

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When Louise Mountford was blue-lighted to hospital in an ambulance with agonising pain just below her right ribs, she was convinced something in her stomach was about to burst.
‘I normally had a high pain threshold, but I was crying out with pain even though I was given morphine,’ says Louise, 66, who runs a farm in Shropshire with her husband David, 75.
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Feeling exhausted every day became the norm for Brigitte Siefken, so much so that she’d have to go back to bed after breakfast or nap in the afternoon just to function.
‘It wasn’t just the tiredness and fatigue,’ recalls Brigitte, 55, a finance assistant, who is single and lives in Nottingham.

Grappling to open a jar or struggling to carry the weight of a heavy bag are all red flag warning signs that your grip strength is declining. It’s not just a minor annoyance either.
"Your grip strength should be taken seriously as it’s regarded as a powerful indicator of overall health and ageing," explains physiotherapist Sammy Margo, director of Smartphysio in London.
"It’s not just about how strong you are, or how good you are at grabbing something either, it’s a window into what’s going o...

Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman, has died at the age of 76. He had suffered from numerous health problems and was diagnosed with a form of Parkinson’s disease in 2019. He had spoken publicly about suffering from the condition, suspecting for years that his shuffling gait and tremor were signs of the disease.
First described as “shaking palsy” by James Parkinson more than 200 years ago, Parkinson’s was once thought of as just a movement disorder, causing the classic triad of tremor, slow...

For the first time, tech companies are being made legally responsible for online harm against children. But do the new rules go far enough in protecting young people, and what do CPs and parents need to know? Journalist Jo Waters reports.
Protecting children and young people from dangerous and inappropriate online content is the ambitious aim of the Online Safety Act (OSA) (Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT), 2023). It’s a long-awaited government move to clamp down on tech...