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Ayan Ikra claimed that puffing on two joints a day allowed her to reach her target weight of 11 and a half stone in just over two years

Successful women could be in danger of falling from a “glass cliff”, according to Professor Michelle Ryan of the University of Exeter. In a keynote talk at the Royal Society’s annual Diversity Conference today the professor will present a report on 15 years of research which reveals how women are more likely to occupy leadership positions in times of crisis. She will also explore the psychological processes underlying the glass cliff, including gender stereotypes, signalling change and setting women up...

Life is a breeze once you reach the age of 44, it has emerged. After struggling to get on the property ladder and establish our careers in our 20s and 30s, research has revealed we start to relax and enjoy the finer things in life from our mid 40s onwards. And the good news is the ‘window of contentment’ continues all the way through our 50s, early to mid 60s and beyond. The turning point in our lives was identified...

Hayden Gavaghan, 28, broke into her home and slit his throat

Philip, from Hertfordshire, lost his wife to early-onset frontotemporal dementia (FTD) – a relatively rare form of dementia that commonly affects younger people. She was diagnosed at the age of 53, and passed away five years later in 2016. The diagnosis followed five years of anguish for the family, as her symptoms first began to manifest themselves in her late 40s, when her twin sons were just 13. This is their story... Many people think of dementia as a condition that affects the elderly...

I have had Crohn's almost my whole life, I was diagnosed at 4 after having a fistula operation. Being ill has been normal to me, as I have never known any different, but this is what has led to me being who I am today. I always did everything within my power to do what I wanted regardless of how hard it was or how ill I felt. For example, when not bedridden and going through phases of being well enough...

Antonia Mitchell Glynn, 36, has spoken about her baby loss after the still birth of daughter Shoshana (Shosh) in 2015 while the couple were living in Australia. They moved back home to the UK that same year, and went on to have a son, Gabriel, in 2016. Her husband Simon Glynn, 37, tells his story… How did friends and family react to your baby loss? From a personal perspective, we were quite open from the start; we wanted to talk...

The UK’s biggest fertility research charity, Genesis Research Trust, warns the causes of baby loss are ‘under-researched’ with a ‘hidden psychological burden’ that’s not being adequately addressed. Professor Robert Winston, Chair and Founder of Genesis Research Trust said: “In over forty years of my professional life I have never felt more at a loss than when confronted by a grieving mother and father who have just seen their dead baby.  Their grief is unbearable when I have had to explain that...

As Brexit approaches, we need a concerted effort from our political and religious leaders to build bridges across Britain’s widening societal divides. But after failing for more than a decade to ensure that social integration has kept up with the scale of immigration, the government must look to its colonial past for help and inspiration, writes Ruchir Verma. By Ruchir Verma In February 2018, the residents of a small town in Punjab started building a mosque. It won’t be the...