Many people in Britain now lead such “atomised lives” that they do not have “any idea” when their elderly relatives are ill or dying, the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, will warn.
The plight of millions of poor children in Britain – with the number in poverty set to rise by a million over the next five years – has been branded unacceptable by the Government’s own watchdog on children’s rights.
It was an unusual way to start the New Year: 52 hours on a bus from Romania to London. I wanted to catch the first coach leaving Bucharest in 2014 and witness the journeys made by people coming to Britain amid hysterical headlines predicting floods of new migrants.
All public schoolchildren in California look set to be immunised, after last year’s measles outbreak at Disneyland, in a controversial move that is being branded ‘one of the strictest school vaccination laws in America’.
Research in the fields of psychology, education and neuroscience shows teaching meditation in schools is having positive effects on students' well-being, social skills and academic skills.
There may be more truth to a much-used romantic saying than was previously thought, after scientists found that beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, especially if you take a long, hard look at your partners first.
A four-year-old Moroccan boy who was born with no nose or eyes, without a functioning mouth and missing parts of his skull, has been given life-changing surgery to reconstruct his face.
A health insurance company has been criticised for allegedly encouraging its users to sign up to a Facebook owned app in exchange for keeping a popular membership perk.
Sugary drinks are killing 184,000 adults around the world every year, and should be eliminated from people’s diets, medical experts have warned. The global death toll from sugar-laden drinks – ranging from soft drinks to fruit smoothies – has been revealed in a new paper published in the American Heart Association’s Circulation journal.
Sugary drinks are killing 184,000 adults around the world every year, and should be eliminated from people’s diets, medical experts have warned. The global death toll from sugar-laden drinks – ranging from soft drinks to fruit smoothies – has been revealed in a new paper published in the American Heart Association’s Circulation journal.
The first time I realised that I had unwittingly developed a close relationship with sugar was in the 1990s, when I was working in New York. The "natural" low-fat plain yoghurt I was eating for breakfast tasted unusually sweet.
The people left behind when someone close to them dies from drug or alcohol use are often forgotten about, especially when it comes to research. Yet the numbers of those affected by these deaths are far from insignificant.
A student, who died after he inhaled so much laughing gas he wasn’t even able to walk down the stairs, was found to have been in possession of two hundreds canisters of the ‘hippie crack’ in his room, a court has heard.
Summertime, and the enticing prospect of eating outdoors. Is it, though? Enticing, I mean. Sure, the idea is wonderful, basking in sunlight while guzzling icy drinks and nibbling on dainty picnic morsels or getting all sticky-fingered with barbecued goodies. But too often it's slightly clammy sandwiches while flapping over encroaching wasps, or trying to establish whether that charred protein slab is actually raw in the middle, in darkness, because it all took longer than you thought.
Ever waltzed into an Asian supermarket searching for a little something to make your stir-fry more authentic, only to blanch at the eight shelves of noodles, 32 varieties of soy sauce and hundreds of mysterious jars of bean paste? Don't worry if you can't tell your pak choi from your choi sum – you're not alone.
