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Cervical cancer symptoms
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Written by Karen Morton, Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline For more information, please also see our main women’s health page. Cervical cancer symptoms? Fortunately I don’t see them often….. and great news…cervical cancer is now potentially a preventable disease! Cervical cancer causes a smelly blood stained vaginal discharge. Every gynaecologist […]
Help with Fertility
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Written by Karen Morton, Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Published 28 December 2020 It’s heart-breaking when you try to get pregnant and have no luck, and as the very difficult year of 2020 comes to an end, many couples will be hoping that 2021 will be their […]
It’s never too late to start getting fit!
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Written by Karen Morton, Founder and Medical Director of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Written 7 June 2020 One of my very favourite patients has asked me to publish this article and I am delighted to do so. In 2018, aged 61, I parted ways with the company I had been working for and […]
Choosing the right foods to manage healthy blood sugar levels
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Written by Eleanor Strang, Registered Nutritional Therapist CNHC mBANT and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline
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 […]
Early miscarriage, why does it happen? Latest research and recommendations
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Written by Dr Danielle Abbott, GP with special interest in Women’s health and revised by Dr Karen Morton, Consultant gynaecologist See Dr Morton’s enhance women’s health through life and pregnancy advice For women who are trying to have a baby, and who are thrilled to see the blue line appear on the pregnancy test, having a […]
An itchy fanny: or medically called ‘pruritus vulvae’.
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Written by Dr Natalie Atere-Roberts General Practitioner and adviser to Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Updated 4 January 2020 See Dr Morton’s control thrush Let’s face it – having an itch “down below” is a pretty embarrassing subject, and women can be reluctant to talk about it, but as a doctor, my job is […]
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 […]
Miscarriage: such a sadness, and sometimes a real tragedy
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Written by Karen Morton, Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline Published 29 December 2019 As we come to the end of 2019 I am sure there are many couples who will be pleased to leave the old year behind them and move into a new one, hoping and […]
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 […]
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