- Tired all the time? Iron deficiency is worth ruling out — Low iron is one of the most common and most missed causes of exhaustion — and you can have it with a completely normal haemoglobin.
- Cervical screening: you can now collect the sample yourself — The test changed, the interval changed, and self-collection is available to everyone eligible. If the speculum was the barrier, it no longer has to be.
- Menopause: what is worth treating, and what is worth measuring — Hot flushes are the symptom everyone knows. Sleep, mood, joint pain, bladder changes and brain fog are the ones people put up with unnecessarily.
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