Answers to Medicine Questions

Why physical activity and previous sugery may be uneasy bedfellows...

How do we get brain damage?

What's the largest organ in the human body? I think it's the skin but my friend - it's the liver. Can...

How fast can brain cells repair the brain?

When I was at school, they taught us that your ears, your nose and your throat were all connected. Why is it that when...

When you yawn, why do your eyes water? Is it normal?

Why do you close your eyes when you sneeze?

Are bugs that bite the way in which most diseases including HIV are spread?

When she was younger, she went to chicken pox and mumps parties to spread the illness and build up her immune system....

If left handed people are made to write with their right hand, will it cause confusion in the brain? I wondered whether...

I was 35 when I realised that I had synaesthesia but no-one in my family has it. I was wondering if it was the brain...

How many cells are there in the brain, and how powerful is a black hole?

Why do you hear your own voice differently to other people?

If you had a stem cell transplant, would your DNA change?

I was hypnotised and thought I was a Dutch girl from 1815. Was this my former life?

I really need to give up smoking but I just can't seem to do it. I have chronic pain after an operation, chronic...

I went to a hypnotist to stop smoking in the early 1980s and it worked for about a year. I went away on holiday and...

What are the dangers of hypnosis? Would it help with my anxiety disorder?

I was hypnotised when I was 25. I'm now 67 and I've smoked once in between. The session cost me £4...

Can hypnosis help tinnitus? It was brought on by two very stressful incidents. Tinnitus is when you get noises in the...

I was hypnotised over 30 years ago and it cost me £5. At the time I was very angry with the hypnotist because...

Macrophages can clean up debris in the lungs. One of your guests the other week said that these phages can help the...

Will man be come extinct like the dinosaurs?

Why does cancer tend to be more common in older people?