Author: Dr Ross Walker

When I started medical school, I was taught that the appendix was a useless little organ hanging off the start of the large intestine. Because of the sophistication of the modern world, the usefulness of the appendix had evolved out of existence. The theory at the time was that particulate…

The best treatment of any modern disease is no doubt, prevention. This is why I am a very strong supporter of the National Bowel Cancer screening program, not to mention the fact that I believe all adults over 50 should have at least one colonoscopy in their life. For someone…

Stem cell therapy has long been the hope of the scientists to end the reign of total knee replacement as the mainstay of therapy for severe osteoarthritis of the knee. Having personally had two separate treatments with stem cells derived from my own abdominal fat, on my dodgy right knee,…

For many years there has been conjecture in the medical profession around the place of stress and its relation to a number of diseases. There are still some members of the medical profession who believe that stress has no place in the precipitations or causation of cancer whereas most people…

I was recently sent the below question from a man in Western Australia: “Can you provide some information on human mineral requirements (both major and trace) as affected by age, gender and physical activities? By world standards Australian soils are generally regarded as relatively poor (proportion of clay, loam and…