Temporary feelings of nervousness or worry in stressful situations are normal and appropriate. However, when anxiety becomes a general response to many ordinary situations and causes problems in coping with everyday life it is diagnosed as abnormal.

More working days are lost due to lower back pain than any other condition. Lower back pain can affect as many as 3 in 5 adults.

Genital Warts are the most common viral sexually transmitted infection (STI). Genital Warts are caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV) which can be passed on during sexual contact.

Shingles is a painfull rash of blisters following the path of a nerve, sometimes on the face and occassionally affecting the eye.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a behavioural disorder which affects up to one in 20 children. It is much more common in boys than girls.

Meningitis is an infection of the lining around the brain and spinal cord. Septicemia is a blood poisoning by the same germ. Both can develop very rapidly into life-threatening conditions.

Most children will catch chickenpox before they are 10 years old. It is a common and usually mild illness caused by a virus called Varicella zoster.

Young children and infants can’t control their body temperature as well as adults, so they quite often have a raised temperature (anything higher than 38 degrees Celcius).