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Nov 2015 23 Categories: Our Clinics, travel health

Travel Insurance, EHIC Cards and Appropriate Cover: Handling Your Healthcare When Travelling Abroad

When booking a relaxing holiday abroad, the last thing you want to think about is what could go wrong – especially what it would be like to spend some time in a foreign hospital. Unfortunately, things don’t always go to plan when holidaying abroad and the need to see a […]

Posted by Tim Deakin

Oct 2015 27 Categories: travel health

More Cholera outbreaks have been declared: how to protect yourself when travelling

Major cholera epidemics are commonly known to affect several regions of the world – Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Central Africa and the Pacific region. But it is in Iraq that the latest outbreak has infected almost 2,000 people. For many people in the UK it may be a surprise to […]

Posted by Tim Deakin

Sep 2015 17 Categories: travel health, Uncategorized

Why visiting your friends and family is a potential health risk

It is now the second most common reason for leaving the UK, but travelling overseas to see friends and relatives without immunisations could put you at serious risk. Visiting friends and family abroad is more popular than it has ever been. In fact, it is now sandwiched between ‘going on […]

Posted by Tim Deakin

Aug 2015 13 Categories: Malaria

Everything you didn’t want to know but should about Traveller’s Diarrhoea

Montezuma’s revenge, Rangoon runs, Delhi belly, Turkey trots: there’s no shortage of fun and quirky names for the illness no one wants to think about when they voyage abroad. However far or wide you may have travelled, you will never be far from someone who has had a brush with […]

Posted by Tim Deakin

Jul 2015 28 Categories: Our Clinics, travel health

5 factors that will make or break your gap year

It”s that time of year again when school and university leavers are preparing their next steps. Some are heading for the big world of work, while others are planning a year of adventure and discovery before they tie themselves down to a stable job and a steady salary. If you […]

Posted by Tim Deakin

Jun 2015 25 Categories: Malaria, Malaria tablets

How a revolutionary anti-malaria drug could simplify travelling abroad

Pharmacologists have discovered a compound with the potential to treat malaria, as well as protect patients from the disease and prevent its spread. The compound, codenamed DDD107498 was recently unearthed at Dundee University. It’s unique compared to current antimalarial drugs in that it may be possible to both treat and […]

Posted by Tim Deakin

May 2015 26 Categories: travel health

Airlines’ dirty little secret

It’s the stuff of nightmares. Impostors board a commercial jet and infiltrate the cabin to poison the passengers. It may sound like something from a Hollywood movie starring Bruce Willis or Wesley Snipes but actually it happens hundreds of times a day on flights travelling from every airport on Earth. […]

Posted by Tim Deakin

Apr 2015 17 Categories: travel health

The great cities for sports fans to visit this summer

Do you consider yourself a football fanatic, a racing enthusiast, an athletics admirer or just an all-round sports lover? It is possible for you to placate this passion through travel this spring and summer. There are a huge variety of major sports events happening across the globe in cities brimming […]

Posted by Tim Deakin

Mar 2015 30 Categories: travel health

Don’t Become an April Fool: Safety Tips for Solo Travellers Abroad

British Summer Time is here! We may all have lost an extra hour’s sleep in March, but the reward of enough daylight to get us through the evenings. With the death of winter comes a dash of spring fever – marked, as always, by April Fools’ Day. It’s the day […]

Posted by Tim Deakin

Feb 2015 13 Categories: travel health

The Rise of the Flashpacker

More and more young people are opting for a gap year before they head to university. From Australia to Africa, Vietnam to Venezuela, the prospect of an exciting adventure-filled year has proven to be a big draw for school leavers. Yet many of these youths are no longer roughing it […]

Posted by Tim Deakin

Travel Insurance, EHIC Cards and Appropriate Cover: Handling Your Healthcare When Travelling Abroad

More Cholera outbreaks have been declared: how to protect yourself when travelling

Why visiting your friends and family is a potential health risk

Everything you didn’t want to know but should about Traveller’s Diarrhoea

5 factors that will make or break your gap year

How a revolutionary anti-malaria drug could simplify travelling abroad

Airlines’ dirty little secret

The great cities for sports fans to visit this summer

Don’t Become an April Fool: Safety Tips for Solo Travellers Abroad

The Rise of the Flashpacker

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