Author: Katie Fraser

The benefits of laughter are known to be manifold. It reduces stress and blood pressure,improves heart health and helps us sleep better. While it is impossible to be happy all thetime, I jumped at the opportunity of bringing some laughter to friends and family when theBBC contacted me last year asking whether I would be […]

Professor Dasgupta’s article from The Times Sir Chris Hoy’s bravery in talking about his prostate cancer is to be applauded, and there are lessons be to learnt from his experience. For men with clear family histories of prostate cancer, the advice should be to have prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood tests from the age of […]

One of the biggest concerns that men have when having their prostates are removed to cure cancer, is the loss of erections. This is because the nerve bundles to the penis travel along the two sides of the prostate gland and can be easily damaged during surgery. Sometimes surgeons have to remove one or both […]

MedithinQ – a headset for better robotic surgery The London Clinic was the first private hospital in the UK to introduce robotic surgery withthe da Vinci robot in 2005. Since then, we have used every single version of the system toperform keyhole surgery including the latest da Vinci Xi robot. This kind of surgery is […]