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Five-A-Day Plus One: The Vitamin B12 Cookbook
Well – it’s now available though Covid-19 has delayed it. I’m talking about my latest book ‘5-a-day Plus One’, a cookbook containing recipes that are rich in vitamin B12. It was originally scheduled for publication at the...
Reflections on Treating Pernicious Anaemia
Lessons from The Covid-19 Pandemic The arrival of the Covid-19 virus in March 2020 brought with it new challenges for patients with Pernicious Anaemia and their families and friends. The most serious problem centred around...
Four Cards; Four Letters
September 3rd, 1959. I was one of 289,242 babies born on that Thursday. Apart from me being born, nothing much happened on that day. I was the second child, my sister having been born eighteen months before, though my mother had...
What Can the Mother Do?
I’m quite good at answering people’s questions when they telephone the Pernicious Society’s Office, after all I do have eleven years’ experience in dealing with members’ problems with getting a diagnosis and adequate treatment....
Her Christmas is Ruined
I took another sad call yesterday. A member of the society was diagnosed fifteen years ago and had negotiated with her GP who prescribed her a monthly injection. And then she moved house to another part of the country. Guess...
The Folic Acid Problem
Even though Christmas is just around the corner the number of telephone calls to the society’s office hasn’t diminished. And yesterday I took a call that was quite astonishing in that it highlights the problems that newly...
Martyn Hooper MBE
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