Health

Importantly, the shift towards healthier choices was most significant in poorer households—an encouraging development, given numerous studies have shown lower-income populations in the UK are disproportionately affected by obesity.

If you’re transitioning to the use of progressive lenses, it’s a seamless process. You won’t have a hard time using them if you’re already using prescription lenses.

It’s time for hypnosis to be freed from the pop-culture clichés and be recognised as a legitimate—and effective—therapeutic tool, according to Harley Street clinical hypnotherapist Gail Marra.

"We are so grateful for everyone’s support at this very difficult time. Now if someone would just get us some new computers…"

Researchers and clinicians are beginning to warn of a potential “cancer epidemic” with late diagnosis and delayed treatment

Many of us look forward to social distancing being relaxed. But for 52-year-old mum of two Jane Hatfield, the prospect is frightening. As someone undergoing cancer treatment, she is one of 1.5m Britons advised to avoid all social contact, even with her family. She talks about life under lockdown in Forest Hill.

Lockdown can replicate the circumstances of the original trauma: feelings of powerlessness, loss of control or indeed of feeling trapped or imprisoned. It can feel unbearable.

Newborn Georgia, was born prematurely, with respiratory illnesses, so they have spent roughly 50 per cent of her life isolating.

The human brain has several ways of adapting to life in confinement. Here are some of them.