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I was smoking 30 a day – I had a heart attack at 48
I vividly remember being sat on the bed trying to put a pair of socks on but I needed to stop and catch my breath while doing so.
4 Mar, 2026 | Admin | No Comments
You need exactly 7 hours and 19 minutes sleep to avoid this chronic illness
Eight hours isn’t the magic number (Picture: Getty Images) Forget the golden threshold of eight hours of sleep, you only really need seven hours, 19 minutes and 12 seconds. If you sleep for this precise length of time, you are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, which 6.3 million Brits are currently at risk […]
4 Mar, 2026 | Admin | No Comments
NHS urges Brits to switch on app feature now after 16,000,000 patients miss out on care
It’s easy to enable notifications (Picture: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) According to recent NHS figures, 16 million GP appointments were missed in 2025, with 4.3% of these counted as no-shows. That’s equivalent to an entire day of missed appointments at every GP practice in England each month — the financial cost of which would […]
3 Mar, 2026 | Admin | No Comments
England’s gonorrhoea hotspots revealed — with one London borough crowned ‘clap capital’
City of Westminster residents may need a refresher on sexual health (Picture: Getty Images) Last year, the UK became the first country in the world to roll out a vaccine for gonorrhoea. In trials, the breakthrough jab was shown to cut the risk of infection by more than 50%, and its introduction was hailed as […]
I’d been feeling overwhelmed: on the brink of tears most days (Picture: Benenden Health) ‘I can’t cope with this any more,’ I thought, as panic, anxiety and dread threatened to overwhelm me. It was a Friday in May 2025 and I was in an important meeting at the office. I had just presented a significant […]
28 Feb, 2026 | Admin | No Comments
I was hit by a truck – then my wife noticed something about my beard
Doctors were preparing to declare me dead (Picture: Daniel Fox) In December 2024, when I was 49, a seven-tonne van changed my life. I was walking across a pedestrian crossing when a vehicle hit me at 30mph. It was around 3pm – just as I was leaving a pub I’d nipped into for a Christmas […]
Katija Cortez decided to have her fallopian tubes removed (Picture: katijafromsydney/Cover Images) If Katija Cortez is certain about one thing in her life, it’s that she’s got absolutely no interest in having children. For her, it’s never been a ‘someday’ or ‘maybe later’ situation. It’s always been a definite ‘never’ for the 30-year-old. It was […]
26 Feb, 2026 | Admin | No Comments
I’m a human Tesla – I charge a battery every night to keep myself alive
Liam was just 24 when he went into heart failure without any warning (Picture: Supplied) After four gruelling months in hospital, Liam Pearce was finally ready to return home, but his health journey was far from over. Grasping a zimmer frame, the 27-year-old knew he faced a future filled with hurdles – learning to walk […]
25 Feb, 2026 | Admin | No Comments
When to see a doctor for your weak erections — and how to make them stronger
Erectile dysfunction can sometimes be a difficult topic to address (Picture: Getty Images) Erectile dysfunction (ED) has historically been treated as purely a sexual health issue. But in reality, there might be other problems lingering. According to new data from online pharmacy Chemist4U, 57.5% of men in the UK say they’ve struggled to get or […]
Could this really be the solution to jaw pain? (Picture: Getty/ Kylie Jenner) Before you start reading this, do one thing: unclench your jaw. Around 8 to 10% of the UK’s population suffers from bruxism, the medical term for teeth grinding or clenching. As such, thousands of us are dealing with a whole host of […]