Cancer specialist Professor Bob Pinedo will never forget the faces of all those patients deemed beyond help. In the 1970s, the presence of metastases meant that a patient’s condition was considered incurable. Nor was there any effective pain management. The cries of cancer patients would sometimes echo down the bleak hospital corridors. ‘In those early days’ – the ‘Stone Age’ of cancer treatment – ‘we couldn’t offer patients much. There was almost no way of treating cancer.’

But now, fifty years on... Countless cancer treatments are available and patients no longer have to live their lives in pain. Mini-organs and tumors are cultivated in laboratories from the cells of individual patients to establish which drugs will be most effective in combating their cancer. Moreover, a cancer diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. An increasingly high proportion of patients surviv...

More and more people, also younger people, are suffering from hearing loss. Hearing loss has no age limit; once you find yourself in the middle of it, it is so important you find an adequate solution. Because rest assured: there is a solution for (almost) every hearing challenge. And the first step is to have an open mind.

It was a simple infection that caused my severe hearing loss. From one second to the next, I realised how important hearing is. It has been a fascinating hearing journey. N...

This book, Problem-Free Diabetes is the result of a vast five-year investigation by researcher Frank Suarez. It is a book dedicated to diabetic patients, to the family that takes care of them, and for the medical and health professionals who genuinely wish to see their patients improve without the need to continuously increase medications or witness the complications that ultimately are the fate of this condition.

The book is 511 pages of explanations, in very simple vocabulary, detailing all...