By Dr Harold Gunatillake – FRCS- health writer Many of our readers will be eating lots of chocolates during this festive season, with or without guilt. After all when your family friends visit you, a box of chocolates would be a most delightful gift. You collect them all, and start tasting them mostly after the [...]
Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake MBBS (Cey), FRCS (UK), FACS (US), FIACS (US), AM (Sing) There is a valve mechanism where the Oesophagus (gullet) Sphincter valve mechanism terminates and the stomach begins. We refer to this as the cardiac (not heart) sphincter mechanism. It is incorporated in the diaphragm opening (hiatus), through which the Oesophagus [...]
2011: the year which simultaneously produced a British singer-songwriter with a powerful, sweet voice and a film featuring, well, Adam Sandler in drag. What do these things have in common? Not much, but TIME magazine included both of them in their recently compiled list of the best and worst of 2011. This week we feature [...]
Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake FRCS Health writer Senior Registrar in Orthopaedics and subsequently acting consultant, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Surrey. England- 1967-69 Your spine is a most flexible mobile structure except the thoracic spine, made strong and stable by a chest frame composed of the ribs and the sternal bone (plate) to protect the vital [...]
By Dr. Harold Gunatillake FRCS At some stage or other during your active years, some may get sciatica. Sciatica or sciatic pain starts on one side of the lumbar spine (lower back), and radiates down the back of one of the lower extremities. You never experience sciatic pain bilaterally. It is a pain resulting from [...]
By Dr. Harold Gunatillake – Health writer When you suffer from a cold or flu during the cold weather months, or you have a bruise on your knee after a fall, your mother or grandmother will prepare a steaming bowl of chicken soup, considered having some sort of “medicine” when you are down: it feeds [...]
Duncan Perera The demise of Duncan Perera came as an unexpected shock at a time when he looked physically fit and visibly free of any ailment, before hospitalisation. His demise has taken away from our midst a human being endowed with sterling qualities. No one, looking at him would have believed that his kidneys were [...]
The passing away last week of Rev. Brother Alexander (81) the “most loved” director of St. Benedict’s College, Colombo, weighs heavily on the hearts of many thousands of Benedictines in Sri Lanka. Bro. Alexander’s uncommon life of humility and poverty will remain etched in the hearts of all those who knew him, more than his [...]
…Continued from last week By Dr. Harold Gunatillake, FRCS Cosmetic Surgeon -Health Writer There are healthy ‘real’ foods and unhealthy ‘unreal’ foods we eat and we find it difficult to differentiate from one another due to circumstances beyond our control most times. Living singly without home cooking or living in environments with traditional unhealthy foods [...]
Foundation’s Annual Memory Walk 2011 To Celebrate World Alzheimer’s Day On Saturday, September 24, the Annual Memory Walk will take place from the Spa Garden, Cinnamon Grand Colombo at 8:00 a.m. The annual five kilometer ‘Memory Walk’ is the flagship fundraising event of the Lankan Alzheimer’s Foundation. The Walk will enable hundreds of people to [...]
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