Cases of dengue fever and chikungunya imported to the UK rose sharply last year, Health Protection...are available. The HPA advises travellers to ensure they take necessary precautions against mosquito bites when ...
commonly among people in their 20s and were most commonly reported in travellers returning from India ...
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Individuals diagnosed with chikungunya had most often travelled to India.
In fact, compared with 2009 ...
19 Mar 2010
| by Dr Zara Aziz
The returning traveller can pose particular challenges for a GP and the patient's recent destination is important. 1 For example, malaria is more likely in travellers from sub-Saharan Africa ...
be the diagnosis in a returning traveller with fever until proved otherwise. Two further thick and thin films must ...
06 Mar 2009
There is a lot of confusing and contradictory advice out there about travel immunisations so here is a simple guide. There are three categories of travel vaccines: 1. Those that must always ...
, these are vaccines that are a matter of public health and against imported disease. The list was contained in the old ...
01 Mar 2009
| by Dr Emma Benton and Dr Rachael Morris-Jones
Well-travelled patients often present with skin conditions. By Dr Emma Benton and Dr Rachael Morris-Jones...Travel Med 2006; 13: 145-52. 2. Hill DR. Health problems in a large cohort of Americans travelling ...
ABSTRACT More individuals than ever before are travelling to tropical climates for work and leisure. Patients with acquired travel dermatoses are therefore presenting with increasing frequency ...
22 Aug 2008
Dr Michael Ingram reviews a new competency framework for nurses working in travel health...., it is travel health services. For the majority of surgeries, particularly where GPs have little knowledge or interest in the field, there is little doubt that patients are better served by a nurse-led travel health ...
. If GPs are leaving the provision of travel health to practice nurses, this begs a number of questions ...
22 Aug 2008
Non-dispensing practices can boost income with travel medicines, explains Dr Jeremy Phipps....travel clinics and it would seem reasonable to be paid for this. As well as charging for writing ...
for NHS prescriptions and staff must be trained appropriately. However, as this is for travel medicines ...
practice wishes to consider dispensing travel medication for the first time, it will need to plan ahead ...
31 Oct 2007
Changes in travel patterns and re-emerging diseases have increased the demand for travel health...of travel, and the increasing numbers of travellers visiting remote areas have created a new tier of health ...
publications and resources have become available to help health professionals advise travellers. All ...
issues The WHO s International Travel and Health is a core text in travel health medicine and it now ...
22 Jun 2007
for travellers....is planned. The fact that a person is seeing a travel health provider or a primary healthcare provider ...
Mumps, measles and rubella remain important diseases globally and unprotected travellers may ...
of the combined MMR vaccine mean that many travellers may not be protected. Those born in the UK before 1960 have ...
18 Jun 2009
Adolescent health now has its own curriculum, but what does this mean for primary care? asks Dr...Improving adolescent health makes sense on many levels. Adolescence is a time of momentous bodily ...
is a long-term investment in the doctor- patient relationship. Improving adolescent health will bring long-term health benefits, providing a golden opportunity to modify chronic disease risk factors ...
13 Oct 2006
Wimbledon GP Dr Paul Cundy (above) won a national motorsport title this year after competing at top English racetracks at speeds of up to 145mph.