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You don’t have to have a period whilst you are travelling

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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 manage periods and understand endometriosis How to delay your period Many women have never considered the fact that we are simply female mammals who are able to control our fertility and […]

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 […]

The Facts Behind Fevers

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Written by Dr Andy Eaton General Practitioner and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline See Dr Morton’s advice page: Soothe a fever Fevers. We all get them at some point in our lives. But what actually causes fever? Dr Andy Eaton gives us a glimpse of the science behind high temperatures. What’s the […]

Is Jetlag Affecting Your Mental Health?

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How I avoided a cold sore while skiing – Harriet’s testimonial

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By Harriet, valued customer from London. In the last 4 years, I’ve become a skiing addict and have visited the slopes numerous times. Every single one of those trips has resulted in a golf ball sized cold sore on my lip around about day 3 of the holiday. Cold sores aren’t just a facial blemish […]

Zika: the latest in a long line of infectious pandemics

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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 page: Zika, microcephaly, Guillain-Barré and Brazil With Zika virus making headlines so soon after the Ebola crisis, we as human beings are left wondering if we can ever combat the constant stream of infectious diseases. […]

Zika, microcephaly, Guillain-Barré and Brazil

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Written by Professor David Moore, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Page last updated 16/05/16 Tell me about Zika Understandably, an outbreak of Zika virus infection in Latin America is causing considerable anxiety. It looks highly likely that infection during pregnancy with this otherwise fairly […]

MERS in Manchester

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Written by Professor Dave Moore, specialist in Tropical Medicine and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helplineThe MERS virus (MERS-CoV) spreads inefficiently to humans from animal reservoirs, principally dromedary camels in the Arabian peninsula. Though person to person transmission is clearly possible, this is even less efficient and has so far only been reported […]

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Travel health

You don’t have to have a period whilst you are travelling

Festival fun – avoiding accidental pregnancy

Festival cystitis

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

The Facts Behind Fevers

Is Jetlag Affecting Your Mental Health?

How I avoided a cold sore while skiing – Harriet’s testimonial

Zika: the latest in a long line of infectious pandemics

Zika, microcephaly, Guillain-Barré and Brazil

MERS in Manchester

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