Have you ever wondered what you see when you die? (Picture: Getty Images) Death happens to us all, so it’s only natural to want to know what you experience the moment your heart stops beating. Will you see a bright light or dead loved ones? Will you be confronted with everything you wish you’d done […]
31 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
I had a very public mental breakdown – my friend’s persistence saved me
After the mania came the madness (Picture: Cal Speet) When the medical team collected me from my mother’s house in January 2015, I was wearing my dead grandfather’s tasselled cowboy jacket with my bare torso exposed, a shoelace as a headband, and there was a smear of crimson blood across my forehead. The blood was fake. The out-of-hours […]
She was three hours away at university in Manchester, I felt powerless to help her (Picture: Kate Spiers) ‘I feel like I’m dying.’ That’s the message I woke up to from my daughter, Sophia, one Wednesday morning in March 2023. Normally I would have put such a text down to ‘teenage dramatics’, but on this […]
29 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
The summer I turned skinny – what happens now Mounjaro season is over?
Weight-loss injections have become a defining trend of Summer 2025(Picture: Getty Images) Back in spring, social media was flooded with ‘What I Eat On Ozempic’ vlogs and hacks to combat Mounjaro-induced nausea. By peak holiday season, feeds were filled with advice on getting pens through customs and how to bend the drug’s no-alcohol rule for […]
28 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Black market Mounjaro is on the rise ahead of 170% price hike — here’s how to spot fakes
An estimated 500,000 Brits pay for private Mounjaro prescriptions (Picture: Getty Images) Earlier this month, Mounjaro manufacturer Eli Lilly announced that private UK prescriptions of the weight loss drug would be increasing in price by 170%. As of September 1, a month’s supply of the highest dose of the weight loss drug will jump from […]
28 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
One symptom revealed the tumour that had been growing in my brain for 15 years
A flight home took a turn for Nicole (Picture: The Brain Tumour Charity/Nicole) When Nicole Cutler was flying from California to Massachusetts in May 2021, she felt her ears pop. But what followed wasn’t that relief that frequent fliers will be familiar with. Instead, it was silence — she’d suddenly lost her hearing. ‘When my […]
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The bush is back — but ‘whisker fatigue’ is the unexpected side effect
Pubic hair might be back in style but it comes with a catch… literally (Picture: Myles Goode) As the bush once again grows in popularity, it’s left some with an unexpected problem in their pants. Women who’ve abandoned the Hollywood or Brazilian in favour of grown-out pubic hair are reporting pain when their pubic hair […]
27 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Map reveals England’s gonorrhoea hotspots — with one London borough crowned ‘clap capital’
City of Westminster residents may need a refresher on sexual health (Picture: Getty Images) Earlier this month, the UK became the first country in the world to roll out a vaccine for gonorrhoea. The breakthrough jab has been shown in trials to cut the risk of infection by more than 50% and is being hailed […]
27 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
I’m an intersex woman — here are 4 facts you probably don’t know about me
Jackie wants to educate people on her condition (Picture: Jackie Blankenship/SWNS) ‘I am female,’ Jackie Blankenship says. ‘That’s the only body I know.’ The mum-of-one, from Michigan, USA, was raised as a girl and identifies as a woman. But when she four years old, her parents were given a rare diagnosis: Jackie was actually ‘genetically […]
26 Aug, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
I paid £62,851 for excruciating height surgery to make me 6-foot tall
Hugo had height surgery so he could be taller than his wife in heels (Picture: Hugo) ‘It’s brutal. You can’t think of the pain, you need to think six foot.’ This was how Hugo Ramirez made it through height surgery, which took him from 5’9 to 6’0. But the three inches the Miami attorney gained […]