Health & wellbeing

I think I’ve finally hit my midlife crisis. People always talk about it as something dramatic that you should somehow...

I didn’t think I could survive the death of my husband, Graham. We met at university when I was 18,...

I’ve had quite a few surgical procedures over the years but one always sticks in my mind. The 7am arrival...

Once the preserve of bodybuilders and sprinters, creatine is now being touted as everything from a brain booster to a...

When I was 21, I went on a girls’ trip with university friends. Over dinner, one of the girls, who...

In 1981 the CD was born and so was I. Both arrivals were surprising and have drifted in and out...

As summer comes and our gardens, parks and woodlands burst into life, many of us are heading outdoors.Scientific evidence shows...

Think balance, diversity and routine“Our gut is a complex machine,” says Dr Ajay Verma, a consultant gastroenterologist at Kettering general...

On 21 February 1986, I was diagnosed HIV positive. I was 22. It was the day of my sister’s 21st...

I was recently beset by a plague of clothes moths. After hours of research, I discovered the miracle that is...