Find an alternative route to good health with the help of Chinese medicine at the Xuefei Clinic in Helsinki.

A friendly and relaxed atmosphere awaits at the Xuefei Acupuncture and Massage Clinic. Owned and run by Dr. Xuefei Wu, the clinic uses traditional Chinese medicines to treat patients suffering from a variety of health problems.

Having spent ten years studying acupuncture and massage, Wu is a highly qualified practitioner of Chinese medicine, with a medical degree and PhD from the Shanghai University of traditional Chinese medicine. He spent four years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the neuroscience centre at the University of Helsinki before opening his Chinese acupuncture and massage clinic in Helsinki in 2009.

Three overlapping but distinct healthcare systems are currently in place in Finland: public healthcare provided by municipalities, the National Health Insurance system, and the Occupational Health Act.

The tax-funded Finnish public health system is operated by the municipalities, which provide universal access to a broad array of health services for their residents. Due to their responsibility for the long-term costs of disease, the municipal system favours disease prevention. Municipalities provide primary and preventive care, rehabilitation and dental care as well as long-term care in municipal health centres, and run 20 hospital districts which provide specialist care.

The Finnish healthcare system is founded on the constitutional responsibility of public authorities to provide medical services and promote the health of all residents regardless of place of residence and ability to pay. In addition to offering comprehensive, universal coverage of health services, Finnish healthcare policy has also long aimed at fair distribution of services and costs.

About a million people in Finland suffer from back problems every year. The good news is that you can do a lot to prevent back trouble, both at work and at home.

Back problems should be taken seriously. But all too often, we only think of the part of the body we never see when we're already crouching in agony. As the back comprises interconnecting nerves, bones, muscles, ligaments and tendons, there are several potential sources of back pain.

Sometimes contemporary medical technology appears to have been warped in directly from the pages of a science fiction novel. One of the most impressive branches of 21st century expertise is that of laser eye surgery.

Laser Assisted In-situ Keratomileusis, or LASIK, is the eye surgery technique most often used today. A Spanish opthamologist, José Barraquer, developed a procedure he named keratomileusis, involving cutting flaps in the cornea and altering its shape. The first trial of lasers to perform a keratectomy was performed in 1991, and millions of people worldwide have undergone the procedure since then, 900,000 annually in the US alone.