Praise for our website and the companion book, The Must-Have Health Guide

'An excellent book covering a wide range of topics. It is suitable for all age ranges, male and female. It should be in every household - the secret book to make you feel normal and not a freak!'

1999 BMA Medical Book Competition

'such a great idea'
 

Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2

'a welcome addition to the home medicine chest...packed with advice...backed up with well documented research...can save you a lot of unnecessary anxiety'.

Health and Fitness magazine

'A fascinating site to surf, even if you don't have a problem or feel particularly embarrassed.' 

The Good Web Guide

'This friendly and informative site covers everything that might make us feel
self-conscious'

Woman's Weekly

'Dr Margaret Stearn offers practical, well informed advice'

WI Home and Country

'an incredibly helpful book'

Bonmarche

'This book should be readily available to all teenagers and their parents. It is simply brilliant, honest, practical and instructive and, thankfully, uncluttered with silly pictures'
 

Damian Ettinger BA, MA, PGCE, Headmaster, Cokethorpe School, Witney, Oxon

'A brilliantly lucid, concise and balanced compendium, encompassing all those health issues that teenagers hope will go away, without them having to seek advice or treatment. '

Robert Masters, Headmaster, The Judd School

'an extremely helpful guide. Unlike most self help guides, it goes out of its way to be evidence based to the point of providing frequent references...In addition to all this useful advice, the book is also studded with rather more whimsical pieces of information'
 

Medical Journal of Australia

'...easy to use, and a great reference tool, I personally recommend this'

Dame Kelly Holmes

'The world's greatest health site'

Dr Phil Hammond

'in a bit of embarrassing pain, I went onto your site and, low and behold, the answer was there! Thank you so much! Really appreciated as I would have never gone to a doctor about this...'

A reader

'I showed it to people in my class. They absolutely loved it; they thought it was hilarious.'

Sam Garrett, aged 16 Work experience, Embarrassing problems

'This excellent, informative and well-written guide will prove helpful to a new generation of young people anxious about personal problems relating to their development and relationships with others. It is clear and balanced, supportive and reassuring, whilst also supplying much needed medical information, and refreshingly free from moral judgement.'

Reverend Martin Beaumont, Chaplain of Tonbridge

'The real beauty of this book is that it can help put your mind to rest over something that has been troubling you.'

Vanilla

'Really like it'

Tim Lovejoy