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Health practitioner support for weight-loss surgery is rising. Dietition Clarice Hebblethwaite provides information on nutritional and behavioural support for patients after surgery
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Nataly Martini provides a brief overview of selected causes of dizziness and vertigo, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular migraine. Through case studies, she explains how these conditions may differ from serious clinical syndromes such as cervicogenic dizziness, highlighting the complexities, risk factors and management of these conditions
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