Psychiatry

Exercise: Can it help to treat depression?

31 Jan 2022 • 3 Likes • 1 comment

4.5% of UK adults are living with depression, and regimens of antidepressant medications are the standard course of treatment. However, pharmaceutical treatments are far from the only solution! Resear...

Polypharmacy: What is it and what is the risk for our health?

23 Jan 2022 • 16 Likes • 4 comments

As the older adult population and the number of young people with complex health conditions have grown in the United Kingdom, polypharmacy has become a problem of increasing importance. But what is...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and NASH

How can NAFLD be reversed?

18 Jan 2022 • 1 Like

NAFLD, or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, is a liver disease, often linked to obesity, diabetes or hypertension. This serious condition may progress to cirrhosis. But the good news is that it can...

How to take care of your health naturally?

3 Jan 2022 • 2 Likes • 2 comments

Adopting a healthy lifestyle is one of the keys to better health. Indeed, good daily habits help to support the immune system. A healthy diet, physical activity, rest, and sometimes supplementation...

Insomnia – Alternatives to drugs: sophrology, self-hypnosis and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

2 Jan 2022 • 1 Like

About 30% of people in the UK suffer from insomnia. Insomnia is a lack or poor quality of sleep that affects physical, mental and social daytime activities.It can be transient, occurring from time to...

Breast cancer

Breast self-evaluation (BSE): A means of early breast cancer detection

20 Dec 2021 • 1 Like • 1 comment

Breast cancer is the most common and deadliest cancer in women. 1 in 8 women is likely to develop it in her lifetime. However, the mortality rate is decreasing year by year, thanks to improved...

Overdose: What to do when you take too much of your medicine?

9 Dec 2021 • 6 Likes • 1 comment

We’ve all had that urge to take another pill when the ones you’ve already taken seem to not be working.But when is “one more pill” too much? What happens if you accidentally take too much...

Multiple sclerosis

Aging with MS: Everything you need to know!

3 Dec 2021 • 5 Likes

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. The immune system dysfunction causes lesions in the nervous system which result in motor, sensory, cognitive and...

Rheumatoid arthritis

What impact does rheumatoid arthritis have on daily life? Carenity members share their story!

30 Nov 2021 • 1 Like • 1 comment

According to the NHS, rheumatoid arthritis affects more than 400,000 people, or about 0.6% of the UK population. Rheumatoid arthritis is a severe chronic inflammatory disease that affects the joints....

Morning stiffness: Why does it occur and what can you do about it?

20 Nov 2021 • 2 Likes • 2 comments

Upon waking up, many patients experience stiffness in their joints, as if they were frozen. This is called "morning stiffness", and there are things you can do about it, to get your day off to a good...

Light therapy: What is it and how can it benefit our health?

18 Nov 2021 • 7 Likes • 6 comments

We’ve all experienced that feeling of “winter blues” as the seasons transition from fall to winter. And for some people, these “blues” may be even more severe, in the form of major...

Diabetes (Type 1)
Diabetes (Type 2)

The insulin pen for diabetes: Everything you need to know!

14 Nov 2021

As part of World Diabetes Day, and because insulin was discovered 100 years ago, in 1921, let's take a look at the means of treating the disease and especially the insulin pen.  What is the insulin...