Bike Week 2020 will be online from 6 to 14 June 2020. During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Cycling UK have realised that helping people to come together to ride may not be possible, so they are holding a series of fun Bike Week 2020 events online this June. Cycling remains a great way to keep fit […]
Indoor cycling is a group exercise activity which can really help improve aerobic fitness at any level. Many visitors to Champneys Tring have a go at an indoor cycling class, even if their level of fitness is quite low. Although all participants follow the same pre-programmed profile, so everyone sprints at the same time and […]
As a founding director of the Hippocratic Post I was delighted to be a part last week of our Awards for Student Medical Journalism at City University, London. I sponsored the Award for journalism covering mental health issues, and how they are being addressed. How the media report on the different topics our students choose […]
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People with lung conditions like COPD and asthma are often breathless. Damage to airways and lung tissue means that the lungs fail to empty properly, a process called gas-trapping. Because their airways have narrowed and they have lost elastic recoil in their lungs, it is more difficult to exhale. They may start to breathe in […]
An insight into the work of male British nurses in 1948 by British Pathe […]
Negotiating your way around the bedroom when you have diabetes from Diabetes UK […]
Employers are becoming more aware about the importance of fertility health to their workforce. There have been some well publicised media reports recently about leading Silicon Valley companies offering female workforce the opportunity to ‘freeze their eggs’ as part of an employee benefit scheme in an effort to attract more women to their staff. The […]
The Mental Health Act is not perfect. Since 1959, when it first came into being, it has been gradually reformed and refined until we have something which works reasonably well, but still with flaws. What piece of legislation doesn’t? The Royal College of Psychiatrists was among the major mental health organisations to call for a […]
Rebecca Wallersteiner takes a look at ‘On time: Finding your pace in a world addicted to fast’, by writer Catherine Blyth, looking at why time has sped up and why there is never enough. He who best discerns the worth of time is most distressed whenever time is lost. – Dante, from his Divine Comedy, (c. […]
The Emperor is Naked: No aluminium, no Alzheimer’s disease. This is the, perhaps unexpected, conclusion of a new open access paper published in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Reports. Putting the headline in context what is actually being suggested is that brain content of aluminium is a catalyst for Alzheimer’s disease. In the absence of pathologically significant […]