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Home 2017 January

Many of us struggle after a bereavement – but there are ways of helping those close to you when they suffer a loss

Do you think you’re resilient? Able to bounce back after a loss or a bereavement? And how long does it take you to get back to normal? Six months? A year? Longer? Psychologists would define resilience as the ability, after … Read More

Dealing with a child’s gender identity issues as a parent is a difficult journey

What would you do if your child came to you and said: “I don’t want to be a boy any more. I’m a girl.” Change the subject? Hope he wouldn’t ask again? Take him seriously? The last is far and … Read More

Why you could lose more weight WITHOUT using pedometers to hit your targets

There are those who swear by their “10,000 steps a day” to keep the pounds off and wear pedometers to make sure they hit their goal. Well, a piece of research has shown that all those apps for weight loss … Read More

How we fail victims of our worst killer illness, dementia

Dementia, including Alzheimer’s, has overtaken heart disease as the leading cause of death in England and Wales. Its fatal outcome rarely gets attention, but people with advanced dementia die because they can’t swallow food and can hardly move due to … Read More

Bad news for lovers of a full English breakfast – it could be causing your migraine

Migraine sufferers – and I was one for 30 years – will do anything to avoid triggers such as foods, drinks and situations that bring on that unbearable pounding in the head and, if they’re unlucky, unyielding nausea and vomiting. … Read More

Best way to achieve good heart health is to take a step back in time

Yes, I know I always go on about it. But we need to keep moving or our sedentary life will, not to put too fine a point on it, kill us. The problem is, in our hunter-gatherer days, our bodies … Read More

How you can sleep next to your baby and make sure it’s safe

Though rare, sometimes medical dogma gives way to common sense. A recent example is exposing infants during their first year to potential allergens (things that cause allergies). Previously the received wisdom was that babies must be spared exposure to common … Read More

‘Family jet lag’ means we pay the price of long-haul festivities

Some of us will have experienced the weird sensation of travelling long-haul and crossing several time zones. For instance, flying to New York means spanning five time zones so when you arrive in America the time is five hours behind … Read More

Cold weather could be a killer as snow and floods sweep across Britain

With an Arctic blast currently hitting the UK we all need to be on our guard. This winter there will be nearly 25,000 deaths due to cold in the UK and many more across Europe. The death toll from cold weather is … Read More

Hope for thousands of stroke victims as new device could help them regain movement

One of the most common ­complications of a stroke is a paralysed arm and hand, and that’s a serious disability. But help is on the way. Using a device devised by scientists at the University of Newcastle, thousands of stroke patients could … Read More

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