Foundling Portraits Campaign

Foundling Portraits Campaign, a new display at London’s Foundling museum until 27th February 2022, capturing the likenesses of the last surviving children cared for at London’s Foundling Hospital, between 1741 – 1954. At the Foundling Museum, London until 27th February 2022 and enlisting the help of five major artists, including Wolfgang Tillmans, a new display, Founding Portraits Campaign, supported by the Art Fund, captures the likeness of the last surviving children cared for at […]

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Kindness is the best medicine for grief

grief support

Kindness is the best medicine when someone is grieving”, Ken Sazuze says one year after the launch of HWF’s Families Programme: It’s been one year since the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF), the charity started by and for healthcare workers, launched their Families Programme to support the families of healthcare workers who sadly lost their lives fighting […]

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Mediterranean diet or mindfulness during pregnancy reduces the risk of a low birth weight baby

Mediterranean diet

Mediterranean diet or mindfulness during pregnancy reduces the risk of a low birth weight baby:  A clinical trial for pregnant women at high risk of a low birth weight baby demonstrates for the first time that Mediterranean diet or mindfulness-based stress reduction interventions during pregnancy reduce the prevalence of low birth weight by 29-36% as […]

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Depression study on metabolic differences

depression and insomnia

Metabolic differences in the diagnosis of and treatment refinement for episodic and chronic depression: A study carried out in the University of Eastern Finland discovered differences in one-carbon and energy metabolism between episodic and chronic depression. One-carbon metabolism plays a key role in the production of, e.g., neurotransmitters. This type of knowledge concerning metabolism in […]

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Remote4All project for people with disabilities

Remote4All

Coventry University academic launches Remote4All project to investigate the impact of remote e-working on people with neurodiversity and disabilities A Coventry University academic has launched a project to investigate how the shift to working from home impacts people with disabilities and neurodiversity. The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of people across the UK to work from […]

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The Calmer Sutra: Iconic sex guide reinvented for menopausal women

sex guide

The Calmer Sutra: Iconic sex guide reinvented for menopausal women: Iconic sex guide The Kama Sutra has been reinvented for menopausal women by Menopause Experts Group to highlight the positions that could reduce joint pain and encourage body confidence. Many of the positions in the ancient Indian text require flexibility, athleticism and body confidence, and […]

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Placentophagy: does it work beyond a ‘placebo’ effect?

Placentophagy

Placentophagy: does it work beyond a ‘placebo’ effect? Sallyann Beresford has been a doula, or professional birthing partner, for the last 20 years. Over that time, Sallyann, 51 who is based in the West Midlands, has assisted hundreds of women during their deliveries in NHS hospitals, private hospitals and homes, and has run courses and […]

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Hacking time zones with Re-Timer

Re-Timer

Hacking time zones with Re-Timer: Mick Jagger, the 78-year-old Rolling Stones singer, was recently photographed in a pair of futuristic Robocop glasses the morning of the day of the final show of their 58-date No Filter worldwide tour at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Some conjectured he might be trying to ease the […]

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Our guide to buying new and used toys safely

buying guide

A guide to buying new and used toys safely from Emma Hammet at First Aid For Life: With rising costs and issues with supply, many people are looking to buy toys online, through charity shops and maybe sourcing the must-have item from different places. However, new or second-hand toys may not always be safe and […]

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Social Media has shaped younger people’s pandemic

Younger people’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic was shaped by their savvy use of social media platforms, navigating mis- and dis-information, subjective content loops, big-tech algorithms and emerging “splinter platforms,” a new University of Melbourne report has found. Social Media & COVID-19 – a Global Study of Digital Crisis Interaction among Gen Z and Millennials […]

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