From the time her periods began at the age of 11, Louise Spice knew that ‘time of the month’ spelled agonisingly painful and heavy periods, accompanied by fainting fits and mood swings, which left her bedbound for days. Yet despite […]
They trim our hair, polish our nails and ease our tired muscles – but beauticians, manicurists, hairdressers and barbers can do far more than that. In fact, many are now trained to potentially save our lives. For example, the charity
Every time Billie Worsey nips up the stairs to fetch something she utters a silent ‘thank you’. Until recently, she was unable do to this alone, needing her husband to carry her. In fact for most of her life Billie
While other boys his age were dealing with acne and mood swings, as a teenager, Neil Smith experienced none of this. For Neil, now 55 and a biomedical scientist from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, never went through puberty. He has Kallmann
Gripped by a blinding pain pulsing through her head and unable to move the left side of her face, Jenny Balls feared she was having a stroke. She wasn’t being overly dramatic: seeing how seriously unwell she looked Jenny’s friends
Sheeraz Henderson had just arrived in France on holiday when she noticed her foot was swollen. She’d travelled on the Eurostar, ‘so I wondered if it was from not moving around enough’, she says. But the foot swelling didn’t go
So much attention is focused on weight gain and obesity as a driver of ill health. But unexplained weight loss – or an inability to get up to a healthy weight – can also be a symptom of various conditions.
A lingering cough can strike for all sorts of reasons, from a run-of-the-mill virus to something more serious – even your age and sex can play a part. A chronic cough is ‘defined as a cough that lasts more than
Ask Sam King if taking Ozempic was worth it in her quest to lose weight and she’ll smile. Sam, who started to gain weight in her 20s, at her heaviest, three years ago, weighed 19 stone, or 121kg. ‘I tried
The question is one that’s puzzling many of the world’s leading medical experts: just why are so many young people falling victim to bowel cancer? Long considered primarily a disease of older age, bowel cancer is now being diagnosed in
