When Take That singer Gary Barlow recently posted a family photo online, it became an unlikely internet sensation. For at 5ft 7in the 54-year-old star looked bizarrely small next to his son Daniel, 24, who towered over him at 6ft […]
Are your medications making you miserable? Over the past decade researchers have uncovered significant links between many of our most commonly used drugs – from over-the-counter indigestion remedies to heart pills – and patients taking them suffering depression. Now, alarmingly,
Could taking tiny fractions of the normal prescribed dose of a medication offer a brilliant way to benefit from the drug, without suffering its usual side-effects? That’s the promise offered by the practice of microdosing – which has become an
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Experts call it Disease X – the next lethal pandemic that will infect the world and threaten once again to leave Britain stricken and paralysed under lockdowns. But what will this disease be, and how well (or badly) prepared are
Last September Emma-Louise Lucas, a mother of one from Manchester, at just 31 received the shocking news that she had a rare type of cancer, caused by her breast implants. Called breast-implant associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL), it’s a form
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Working out in the gym for ten hours every week, hiking long-distances wearing a weighted rucksack, cycling intensively for long distances … would you be willing to exercise that hard in the hope of living a long, healthy life? A
Amid winter’s freezing grip, it’s the season for cosy home comforts (or Hygge, as it’s known in Denmark), in the shape of crackling wood fires, flickering scented candles to perfume our snugly draught-proofed homes – and the tempting aroma of
Learning she had advanced bowel cancer at the age of 36 understandably came as a devastating shock to Carla Mitchell – not least because the disease is normally associated with those in their 60s and above. What the marketing representative
As far as our bodies are concerned, Planet Earth is now Planet Plastic. Tiny plastic particles – microplastics – in the air we breathe, our food and water and many of the products around us pollute our bloodstream and organs,
Professor Geoff Abbott is a botanical Indiana Jones. He leads expeditions into Earth’s wild places to find medicinal treasures – herbal remedies used by indigenous peoples that may contain life-saving chemicals that will revolutionise treatments for serious disorders. These expeditions
