Since being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, former primary school teacher Sue Edge has turned her own darkness into a bright and colourful future. Sue, from Meadow Springs in Mandurah, Western Australia said her diagnosis in 2010 dealt her a real blow and having to leave the job she had loved […]
Health & beauty
A member of one of the most elusive bands of the Sixties is joining some of rock’s luminaries to support the battle against teenage cancer. Paul Quinton, original vocalist with the cult band Five Steps Beyond, has released a limited edition vinyl EP which has got the record-buying public in […]
It is two centuries since UK physician James Parkinson first described Parkinson’s in his paper “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy”. Sadly though, in the last 200 years we have failed to find what causes Parkinson’s, have difficulty diagnosing it and there is no real treatment which will slow, stop, […]
One of Britain’s leading medical practitioners has controversially claimed that Type 2 diabetes is not a disease bur a ‘walking deficiency syndrome’. Sir Muir Gray, who has done extensive research on how modern lifestyles are contributing to health problems, says getting on ‘Shanks’s pony’ every day could help sufferers dramatically. […]
There is a silent epidemic sweeping Britain… anxiety is affecting more than six million people in Britain TODAY. And more than 240,000 new cases are diagnosed every year. Sometimes though, anxiety can become panic which often leads to a cycle of fear which causes victims to avoid situations or places […]
George Freeman, the boss of the prime minister’s policy board, has said sorry after he defended Government changes to benefits by saying funding should go to the ‘really disabled’. The Department for Work and Pensions revealed that it was squeezing benefits in response to two tribunal rulings, including one that […]
One in four middle-aged women should be screened for breast cancer every year, new research says. Women aged between 50 and their early 70s have NHS mammograms every three years. However, the new research suggests that women with ‘high density’ breasts should be screened annually. The fear is that women […]
Mohammed Abad lost his virginity at the age of 44 after having a £70,000 mechanical manhood fitted… But then discovered he’s not really that interested in sex. The prosthetic device inflates with liquid from his stomach when he presses a button in his testicles and since it was fitted less […]
The Government will fork out more than £1.6bn over next three years to private contractors who decide whether people are well enough to work or not… And now it is revealed that the Government is spending more assessing people than it saves in reductions to the benefits bill. The National Audit […]
AllBeauty.com, which sells names such as Clinique and Clarins for about 20 per cent less than on the high street, came top in a poll of 10,000 shoppers. The small British firm sells big name brands around the world and has been voted ‘best online shop’ Which?. The organisation said: […]