Tag: Health & wellbeing

Claire was in bad shape. She had been brought to the ward on a stretcher and hoisted on to a ...

The runner’s high, where pavement-pounding drudgery turns into something like a chemically enhanced experience, is an elusive state to pin ...

I was 43, unfit and burnt out at the end of 2025, when my phone pinged from an old friend: ...

It’s an idea that’s been enthusiastically embraced on social media: women should sync their training to their menstrual cycle. That ...

It can be hard to be nice. When I was a kid, envy would prickle me as I walked past ...

Tough Mudder. CrossFit. Hyrox. Some of this century’s biggest fitness trends have one thing in common: they require feats of ...

Poor sleep may be fuelling the global rise in under-50s being diagnosed with cancer, two large studies suggest.The number of ...

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 ...