Lifestyle

It distinguishes between toxic and healthy forms of a protein that collects in clumps in dementia patients - causing confusion and memory loss

Kevin McCarthy got down on one knee when he learned the love of his life, Mandy Lucitt, was suffering from incurable pancreatic cancer.

Love Island star Olivia Attwood was thown out of a nightclub after she hopped up on the bar and began drinking Strongbow cider out of the tap. The reality TV personality, 26, put on the exuberant display at The Source Bar in Maidstone, Kent, at 2.20 am on Thursday. CCTV caught her draped across the bar drinking cider straight from the tap before a security guard in a hi-vis vest picked her up and carried her out of the venue....

Leading health charity, the Oral Health Foundation, is calling for urgent action to address the continued increase in the number of children having their teeth extracted in hospitals throughout England. This call to action follows the release today of statistics from Public Health England (PHE) which show that a child in England has a rotten tooth removed in hospital every ten minutes, which is around 141 children a day. Speaking about these shocking numbers, Dr Nigel Carter OBE, CEO of...

A new mum was left in tears after she was banned from breastfeeding her baby in McDonald’s – and told to take the tot into a public TOILET. Christine Wilson, 22, had gone into the fast-food restaurant in order to discreetly feed her seven-month-old son Brooklyn when he started to cry. But she was ordered out by staff who instead told her the only place she could breastfeed was in the public loos in a shopping centre. Christine has blasted...

Nostalgia is a bankable commodity nowadays. And nowhere is that more obvious than in the world of ecommerce. Online sellers that stock old clothes, vinyl records, and curios from the recent past can count of the power of memories to move their products; and online shoppers seemingly can’t get enough. But why do ecommerce shoppers love retro goods as opposed to brand new stuff that’s never been handled by anyone else? There are a few answers to that question and...

A woman diagnosed with terminal cancer was shocked to be called to a 'consultation' to discuss if she could return to work. Krissy Johnson, 48, was diagnosed with incurable metastatic Breast Cancer in September 2015 and given less than a year to live. Nearly three years later, she has been called to a meeting by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to determine if she is capable of returning to work. The mother-of-one shared a letter she had been...

Karen Gray, 43, has been fighting for the legalised prescription of cannabis oil to help son, Murray, who suffers from a rare form of epilepsy.

Eating burgers, bacon sarnies and hot dogs can raise the risk of a heart attack or stroke by 60 per cent, according to new research. Red meat is rich in animal proteins that harm the heart and blood vessels, say scientists. On the other hand consuming plenty of nuts and seeds almost halves the likelihood thanks to plant proteins that boost the arteries. In the first study of its kind Dr Gary Fraser and colleagues compared the effects of different...