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This page provides information to help you understand and decide if you may wish to store samples of semen before any cancer treatment.
This page answers some of the questions you may have about your humerus fracture. It also gives you advice and information about how to manage at home. The humerus is the bone in the arm between your shoulder and elbow. Your injury is a fracture to this bone, near the shoulder. There is often quite a lot of bruising and swelling of the arm over the first few weeks. This is normal and resolves by itself as the fracture heals.
Department of Haematology
Back slabs are commonly used as a first-line treatment when the fracture is swelling or following a surgical procedure.
High Performance Liquid Chromatography to distinguish normal and abnormal Haemoglobins. Tests include:
By Dr Hina Iftikhar, Dr Seema Alaee, Dr Jessica Bennett, Dr Rachel Kaminski, Dr David Windsor, Dr Charlie Sharp
by Jim Moriarty
You have been asked to come to the hospital for an oral Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT). This page gives you information about the test and the preparations needed.
Professor Michael W L Gear, the foremost and most eminent Consultant Surgeon of his generation in Gloucestershire, died peacefully at home on Monday 29 January 2024
In Play in Hospital Week, find out what our Play Specialists do in a typical day
It is important to drink plenty of fluid. You should drink 6 to 8 glasses of fluid every day to prevent dehydration. During warmer weather you need to drink more fluids. The information in this page will help you choose the type and amount of fluid your body needs to maintain a healthy bladder and bowel.
COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus strain that first emerged in China in December 2019. In humans, coronaviruses are known to cause respiratory infections ranging from the common cold to more severe disease.
Note: levels of IGF-1 may be low with anorexia or malnutrition.
This page explains about local steroid injections and their use, including the possible side effects. Local steroid injections have been suggested for you because they are considered an important part of the treatment for many types of hair and scalp disorders. These include alopecia areata, frontal fibrosing alopecia, folliculitis decalvans and lichen planopilaris.
Hospital Audio Guides
by Helen Overton, Silvia Oliva and Vivienne McCrorie
The aim of the study is to see whether regular endoscopic surveillance is better than endoscopy at need for detecting early signs of oesophageal cancer in patients diagnosed with Barrett’s oesophagus.
