‘Have you ever been sexually active?’ The question posed by the healthcare worker in the hospital examination room was to the point, but Sarah didn’t hesitate to answer honestly: ‘No, never.’ That answer changed not only what happened in the […]
Having hit his mid-50s, former Olympic runner Roger Black thought the fact he sometimes nodded off in front of the TV in the early evening was ‘just a sign I was becoming an old git’. Similarly, Roger, now 58, blamed
How much do you have in common with a mouse? The question isn’t as fatuous as it sounds – mice are the most commonly used animal for laboratory tests to find new treatments. Chances are that whenever you take a
Why not come over for dinner and some binge drinking?’ It might not be the conventional way an invitation is worded, but the reality is that’s often what happens. People don’t like to acknowledge it, say experts, but the truth
Susan Leeson thought her clear mammogram meant she could briefly relax about her risk of breast cancer until her next routine screening in three years’ time. ‘I thought great, one less thing to worry about for a bit,’ she says.
