Personalised diets can influence several key aspects of health, including lowering your weight, cholesterol and heart disease risk, as well as improving your mood, metabolism and gut health. And this is kind of what you’d expect. But does it mean … Read More
Common allergy signs – including itchy mouth and swollen lips, face, mouth and eyelids
Food allergy is a vexed subject. How much of it is a true allergy and how much is down to intolerance? People also tend to use the word allergy when all they have is a deep dislike of a food. … Read More
Why we should be using schools to help improve our children’s mental health
Seeing report after report on the worrying state of children’s mental health makes me feel as if we’re in the middle of a national epidemic. Despite some investment in recent years, the children’s mental health system is blighted by long … Read More
Incredible new devices can actually wrap around individual nerves – this could stop risky surgeries
Researchers at Cambridge University are pioneering devices which could be used to diagnose and treat a range of disorders, including epilepsy and chronic pain – even the control of prosthetic limbs – by combining flexible electronics and soft robotics. The … Read More
Balanced diet leads to better mental health as well and higher amounts of grey matter in brain
We know that a healthy diet is good for the heart, the arteries and almost every other organ in the body. Is it good for the brain too? As you’d expect, it is, in fact for “superior’ brain health. Our … Read More
Obesity may be to blame for cancer surge in under-50s – the chickens have come home to roost
Well, the chickens have come home to roost. By that I mean we’re now paying a very high price for the epidemic of obesity, with soaring cancer rates. And while cancer is traditionally seen in older people, these new cancers … Read More
MND breakthrough as UK scientists develop super early detection of disease that killed Rob Burrow
Motor neurone disease can be devastating. It’s a fatal, and rapidly progressing neurological condition which currently affects around 5,000 people in the UK. It can affect adults at any age but most people are diagnosed over the age of 50. … Read More
Waking up to morning stress can put our hearts at risk of potentially fatal rhythm disturbances
This research is based on something I was unaware of and that is people are more likely to have potentially fatal heart rhythm disturbances when they wake after a night’s sleep. Until now we haven’t known why this happens. Turns … Read More
Two-thirds of us worry about end-of-life care, harrowing survey reveals
At one time we used to worry about getting older. Now it seems we worry about what we will do when we are older. This change of emphasis came out of a King’s College London survey of more than 2,000 … Read More
Relief for worried mums after study finds painkillers do not cause ADHD in babies during pregnancy
When a woman is pregnant, she instinctively wants to protect her unborn baby from any harm and often refuses to take even the most commonly used over-the-counter drugs, such as paracetamol. Well, now pregnant mums can rest easy and take that … Read More