Lifestyle

The average Brit spends the equivalent of almost two weeks of their life LOST, it has emerged, but how good are your map reading skills? A new interactive quiz has been launched following new research that shows despite a rise in technology we still typically end up going the wrong way 24 times a year or more than 1,450 times over our lives. It also emerged almost three quarters of us admit to having little or no sense of direction....

Failing to say goodbye, hanging up while someone is still talking and rarely answering the phone are among the most annoying mobile phone habits, it has been revealed. Experts have unveiled the modern guide to phone manners, which aims to bring back some of the pleasantries and good etiquette typically associated with using the telephone. The study of 2,000 adults revealed one in five are taking phone calls on the toilet, while 68 per cent lose concentration less than four...

When I first walk into Neville Hair and Beauty, it feels more like a nightclub than a salon. There is exposed brick, the catchy beat of dance music and a cloakroom complete with a bored looking attendant. This is where the well-coiffed women of Knightsbridge come to have their tresses styled. The salon has an impressive roster of celebrity clients including Kelly Brook and Holly Willoughby. It describes itself as ‘the home of palm painting’, when a colourist paints dye...

Secondary breast cancer is often overlooked, including during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. There remains confusion over what “secondary” breast cancer means and there are many misconceptions that women and men living with the disease hear daily – that if they’ve finished treatment they must be better, they can’t have cancer because they look so well, or that they know how long they will have with family and friends. Secondary breast cancer is when breast cancer cells have spread...

A dad who was told he had a trapped nerve after collapsing at home was given the devastating news he is suffering with an incurable brain tumour. Neil Grist had gone to a sports therapist and was doing exercises to help relieve the tingling in his legs when he suddenly suffered 16 seizures in a day. Paramedics who came to Mr Grist's home when he first suffered a fit and fainted in March this year said the pain he suffered...

A teacher unwittingly saved the life of a six-year-old pupil after urging her to get an eye test - which revealed a massive brain tumour. Nia Ferris, 31, noticed something was wrong with Evie Hughes' vision and advised her parents to consult an optician in case she needed glasses. But they were stunned to be told their daughter was completely blind in one eye because of a slow-growing tumour which had probably been there since birth. Evie was rushed to...

A hospital is beating bed-blocking by sending elderly patients to a care home - at a THIRD of the cost of keeping them on wards. An entire floor on a newly-built care home has been commissioned so patients from Yeovil District Hospital in Yeovil, Somerset, can leave hospital. Pensioners who no longer need to be monitored by medics but are not able to live safely and independently at home can go there. And instead of sitting on hospital wards waiting...

Human intestines have been grown in the lab and transplanted into rats - offering hope of new treatments for serious gut disorders, scientists have revealed. The breakthrough could combat the organ donor shortage crisis, leading to better therapies for Crohn's disease and even cancer. It opens the door to creating tissues for patients "on demand" with no risk of rejection - ending the need for drugs, says the team. The technique involves creating a three-dimensional biological scaffold made with human...

A medical implant to correct congenital heart defects has been developed that grows with the child. The use of such devices has been thwarted because they are a fixed size - and cannot expand as young patients get bigger. Scientists said the new growth-accommodating implant inspired by a toy could revolutionise cardiac repair - and also be adapted to correct diseases in other parts of the body. Co senior author Professor Pedro del Nido, chief of cardiac surgery at Boston...