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Menopause does not have to be like this!

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Written by Karen Morton, Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline See Dr Morton’s enhance women’s health through life Updated 1 January 2020 At last the importance of addressing Women’s Health is receiving the attention it deserves;in society (see the RCOG’s latest initiative) and in corporations who seem to understand the value […]

Contraception – from crocodile dung to female condoms and beyond

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Contraception has been a pre-occupation among men and women for as long as written records go back – although more for illicit relationships than for married couples. Early Egyptian papyri (from around 1550 BCE), for instance, proposed a number of different methods to avoid pregnancy. Advice included placing honey, acacia leaves and lint in the […]

Gynaecology – What a fortunate life to have a career I love!

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There’s a patient under there somewhere! I am a surgeon. I love being a surgeon. I love being in the operating theatre and I love making people better. It is a privilege to earn a living this way. That said, I am a very ‘anti-surgery surgeon’ and I would never ever have an operation unless […]

Sex: pain at the entrance sex, pain deep inside sex, and impossible sex. All in one afternoon!

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Written by Dr Karen Morton Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Here’s the third episode of Dr Morton’s casebook! It is amazing how often there is a little run of the same type of thing in one clinic. Lots of different bladder troubles. Several women with itchy bits. A collection of […]

Starting a contraceptive pill: a big moment in a woman’s life!

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Written by Dr Karen Morton Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline The availability of contraceptive tablets fuelled the sexual revolution and liberation of women during the Swinging 60s. Oral contraception was developed initially in the late 50s in the USA and first launched in the UK in 1961: but for married […]

Festival fun – avoiding accidental pregnancy

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Written by the Dr Morton’s communications team See Dr Morton’s Gynae Travel Pack© and enhance women’s health through life Festival fun The Festival Season is beyond halfway, with only Boardmasters at Newquay, Leeds and Reading (plus a few smaller ones) still to come. For many young people they will be a rite of passage, and unforgettable, but […]

Festival cystitis

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Written by Dr Karen Morton Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Festival cystitis This blog was first published in July 2013, shortly after the Rolling Stones headlined at Glastonbury. And what a gig! I hope I am like Mick Jagger at 70; well, the moves anyway! Actually, when I wrote this […]

Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline and the Gynae Travel Pack

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Written by Dr Karen Morton Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline See Dr Morton’s Gynae Travel Pack© and vaccinations and travel medicine and enhance women’s health through life Gynae Travel Pack Hi, I’m Dr Karen Morton, co-founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline©. I am a consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician (practising for over […]

World AIDS Day 2017

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Written by Dr Binta Sultan, Consultant in genitourinary medicine and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Click here for STI test kits for men Click here for STI test kits for women HIV is a virus that compromises the immune system and makes you susceptible to life threatening infections and cancers, known as […]

Sexually transmitted infections: the basics

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Written by Dr Martin Saweirs, General Practitioner for Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline See Dr Morton’s syphilis and other STIs for more information Awareness about sexually transmitted infections (STIs for short) is on the rise, but unfortunately not as fast as new cases are. They can take all shapes and sizes, from the unsightly to […]

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Sexual health

Menopause does not have to be like this!

Contraception – from crocodile dung to female condoms and beyond

Gynaecology – What a fortunate life to have a career I love!

Sex: pain at the entrance sex, pain deep inside sex, and impossible sex. All in one afternoon!

Starting a contraceptive pill: a big moment in a woman’s life!

Festival fun – avoiding accidental pregnancy

Festival cystitis

Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline and the Gynae Travel Pack

World AIDS Day 2017

Sexually transmitted infections: the basics

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