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Azithromycin no longer best treatment for chlamydia

Azithromycin pack photo

You can no longer buy azithromycin online for chlamydia infections from Dr Fox.

Guidelines about chlamydia treatment were updated September 2018.

A 7-day course of doxycycline is now the recommended first line antibiotic for chlamydia infections.
Doxycycline for chlamydia

  • Have you recently tested positive for chlamydia?
  • Do you need help and advice regarding treatment?

If so, read on – we can help!

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You, your periods, and your health

Woman with flower on stomach to symbolise her period

“Maybe if period pain burned calories, it would be worth it!” – so states the popular meme. If only that was true! But love them or hate them, periods are here to stay … at least until the menopause!

Read on and see…

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Easier ways to take your Pill – new recommendations for 2019

Combined contraceptive pill packs

But have we really been doing it wrong for 60 years?

The press reported this week that since the contraceptive pill was first launched – and this was 60 years ago! – we could have been doing it differently! They also stated that one of the reasons behind this was to please the Pope!

Let’s try and put this medical conundrum into understandable terms, and try to prevent confusion!

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New Year’s Resolutions 2019

What is a New Year’s Resolution?

New year resolutions 2019At New Year on 1st January, we set ourselves personal goals for the coming year. Read on and be inspired!

What’s your New Year’s resolution? Listed below are some great ideas for a healthy New Year!

Good health – a new year, and a new you!

My biology teacher once said to my class at school:

YOU are representative of everything you have ever put into your mouth!

Everything you put in your mouth has consequences – whether it’s food, alcoholic drinks, cigarettes, or drugs/medicines. Read in full

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Find that hangover cure!

Man asleep at desk holding bottle with a hangover

So – it’s January 1st 2019! …And you’ve woken up feeling like you might be better off dead. Like most of the rest of the nation.

In fact, the only cure for a real hangover – is death!

William Faulkener, American Nobel Prize winning author
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Getting the best out of drug treatments for erectile dysfunction

If you are reading this, you may have erectile dysfunction (ED) and be thinking about taking Viagra or one of the other similar drug treatments.

Perhaps you have already tried it?

Perhaps you didn’t get that great response you were expecting?

Read on and find out about some helpful tips about how best to use drug treatments for ED. Read in full

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