Holidays are supposed to be stress-free breaks to recharge our batteries but not everyone finds themselves unwinding into a state of relaxed bliss. Unstructured time away from the daily grind can expose weakness in partner and family relationships. If your relationship is conducted by post-it note for most of the year and has stress points, […]
Women deserve to have a good sex life into their fifties and sixties and beyond and the menopause is too early to just give up on sex. I do encounter women in my practice who have gone through the menopause and throw caution to the wind in terms of practising safe sex but they are […]
Holidays are the perfect opportunity to relax and have fun, but drinking to excess in the sun can result in more than just a hangover. It’s important to stay hydrated in the heat, especially if you are drinking alcohol, as it dehydrates you even further. Your body can only process one unit of alcohol an […]
Scientists in Japan may have discovered how to solve the problem of cell samples drying out during observations under the microscope – and they were inspired by the concept of cling film. In order to fully understand how biological cells function, it is important to be able to visualize them in their environment, on long-enough […]
Should we eat more red meat, not less? That’s the question posed by the a new study published by the journal Nutrients which found that blanket health messages to lower red meat intakes could have adverse implications on the micronutrient quality of women’s diets, particularly intakes of zinc and vitamin D. The secondary analysis of […]
Many evolutionary biologists believe that a diet rich in red meat eaten by our ancestors was responsible for the dramatic increase in the size of our brains compared to other plant-eating primates. Gorillas, which have a plant-based diet for example, may grow to sizes three times bigger than us, but their brains are far smaller […]
September 2017 meetings at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Tuesday 5 September: Registration 08:15 Microbiome in cancer and beyond Organised in collaboration with researchers at Imperial College London, this meeting is about the new world of the microbiome in medicine, with a focus on microbes in cancer aetiology and therapeutics. The microbiome represents a developing field that […]
When it comes to the G20 league table for healthcare, the UK is bumping along somewhere near the bottom. Turkey and Mexico are the only two countries in the G20 which have fewer nurses per 100,000 people than the UK, according to latest analysis of data held by the World Health Organisation, the Organisation for […]
One in four people reveal they never or rarely protect their eyes from the sun, despite 83 per cent saying sight is their most important sense, according to a new survey carried out on behalf of the charity Sightsavers which works to eradicate blindness globally. The poll of 2000 UK residents found that 20 per […]
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‘Fat but fit’ people are at increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), even if they are otherwise healthy, according to a new study published in the European Heart Journal. Researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge, have found that being overweight or obese increases a person’s risk of CHD by up […]