Just a quick note before I head off to the first Gloucestershire Support Group meeting. There are three new leaflets now available in the Library Section of the Website. These are available only to members. One is an Update for Medical Professionals that gives details...
New Survey
Last week I had an extremely interesting meeting with one of our members who is a Pharmacist and has offered to help us in any way that she can. She has been digging around and has found that when Hydroxocobalamin was first licensed for use in the UK the dosing...
Research Recruitment Finally Complete
Yesterday afternoon I received an email with the names and addresses of twelve patients who have been diagnosed as having Pernicious Anaemia and who manage perfectly well on a replacement therapy injection every three months. It says something about the treatment...
Letter to RCGP
It happened twice yesterday. Two calls received from patients who had, in the past, eventually been diagnosed as having Pernicious Anaemia and who have recently been told that they no longer need replacement therapy injections of B12 because their serum B12 were 'too...
GP Telephone Calls
Yesterday I took two telephone calls from two different GPs who wanted to discuss their patient's problems. I was expecting one of the calls as the member had telephoned last week to tell me about the problems she was having getting adequate treatment. During the...
First GP Presentation Completed
"Here's some good news". That's how the email started. It was from a GP who had just completed the first of what will transpire to be a series of presentations to fellow doctors that raises awareness of the prevalence of Vitamin B12 Deficiency along with the...











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