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Fighting winter
viruses
The cold, dry conditions associated with the winter months,
brings with it an increase in viral infections. Medical
professionals need to be prepared for a considerable increase
in workload...
From Features on health
Seasonal Affective
Disorder (SAD)
The lack of sunlight and the shortening of daylight hours
during the winter months can often have an adverse effect
on our health. In fact, it is estimated that every winter,
half a million people in Britain suffer symptoms ranging
from sleep problems, lethargy, overeating, depression, social
problems, anxiety and mood changes...
From Features on health
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"Whoever wishes to investigate
medicine properly, should proceed thus... consider the
seasons of the year, and what effects each of them produces.
Secondly...study the warm and the cold winds, both those
which are common to every country and those peculiar
to a particular locality..."
Hippocrates, 400BC |
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