The runner’s high, where pavement-pounding drudgery turns into something like a chemically enhanced experience, is an elusive state to pin down. Some people seem to get it during most of…
I suffered a spinal cord injury in August 2024. I voluntarily surrendered my driving licence to the DVLA, only for it to revoke it instead. This makes it much, much…
I tend to start grilling food the second I catch a glimpse of the sun. After all, even if the temperature drops or the clouds threaten, I can always resort…
BBC Panorama has seen documents and spoken to former midwives from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Source link
Women tell the BBC presenter how endometriosis affects their lives, as she challenges ministers to take action. Source link
IAVI, Moderna and the University of Oxford are all working on new vaccines. Source link
Emma Barnett shares her life-long struggle with endometriosis – a disease affecting one in ten women of reproductive age, which causes excruciating, often debilitating, pain. Source link
Turin is one of Italy’s most serious food cities, shaped by the culinary legacy of the House of Savoy and, more recently, the slow food movement – a reputation reflected…
Finding affordable hotel accommodation in Europe’s coastal hotspots in summer can be a challenge, especially if you’d rather not settle for a soulless budget chain or youth hostel. Whether it’s…
Weddings! Wimbledon! It’s June, which means that summer has well and truly arrived. The May heatwave may have flagged some gaps in your warm-weather wardrobe, so here are some of…
I was home alone on New Year’s Eve when I heard the unmistakable sound of people in my garden. These weren’t revelers. They were burglars. The thump I heard next…
I have ended up hundreds of pounds out of pocket after paying £66 for a week’s parking at Stansted airport. I booked through the website compareairportparkings.co.uk for our car to…
I was 43, unfit and burnt out at the end of 2025, when my phone pinged from an old friend: double quotation markI know this is unlikely but I’m thinking…
It’s said to be mother nature’s stunning con trick, the single most helpful move in the propagation of the species – that childbirth might be the worst thing ever to…
At least 282 confirmed cases of Ebola have now been reported in Congo’s ongoing outbreak as authorities in Brazil said they were looking into two suspected cases. The two patients…
Dua Lipa got married this weekend in a beautiful outfit that appeared to pay homage to Bianca Jagger’s wedding to Mick Jagger. The singer wore a Schiaparelli couture white skirt…
While souvlaki and other Greek meat grills are staples in our house, their appearance definitely increases in the warmer months. And if I’m going to the effort of lighting the…
In July 2021, after a few beers on a summer evening, my flatmate, Lew, answered an internet ad. By 5pm the next day, we had a kitten. She was a…
How did you sleep last night? Did your smartring congratulate you on 8.5 sleepmaxxed hours in a cool, blackout-dark room after two hours’ withdrawal from blue light and “devices” and…
After years of shrinking usage and tumbling stock prices, the dating app Bumble is teasing a major change to its product. But in solving one problem, it might be walking…
It’s an idea that’s been enthusiastically embraced on social media: women should sync their training to their menstrual cycle. That means lifting heavier weights around ovulation, then switching to gentler…
Summer is a beautiful season in Scandinavia, and the word that embodies it is “abundance”. The midsummer night doesn’t really get dark, the light is beautiful and it is only…
When Sarah Geeson-Brown retired in 2022, she had a rough idea of how the next few years would go. She and her husband, Michael, planned to travel. But six months…
Rupert Everett is struggling with the heatwave. It reminds him of the summer of 1976, when he was 17, basking in the sun, serene as a sloth, his future spread…
The drug, daraxonrasib, has been hailed as a breakthrough in managing the deadliest of all the major cancers. Source link
Health experts in Jersey say the change helps people realise it is not an ovaries-only condition. Source link
Your gut doesn’t just respond to your brain – it helps shape your emotions. Professor of Biomolecular Medicine Jon Swann explains why. Source link
Sudden cardiac death can happen without warning, and it’s not just a problem for sporty young men, say experts. Source link
Available for over a year According to the World Health Organisation, around 1 in 5 people will develop cancer during the course of their lifetimes. We usually associate the disease…
It can be hard to be nice. When I was a kid, envy would prickle me as I walked past big houses, wondering what it would be like to have…