All news by author: Vanessa Chalmers

FOOD, flower, fanny… Forget whatever nickname you have for your vagina, because we’re about to get scientific about the passage that connects your

LONG-term loneliness may increase a person’s risk of stroke by 56 per cent, a new study shows.Loneliness has already been linked with heart disease,

FOR months teenager Abi Marie Dean dismissed her blurry vision.The aspiring hairdresser didn’t tell her dad, Martin, and delayed visiting an opticia

IT is a billion dollar question, do so-called “happy pills” work?The value of the global antidepressant market in 2022 was £13BILLION.By 2032, ex

CAN'T get no sleep?According to a surveyby The Sleep Charity, nine in 10 Brits experience sleep problems, and normalising our sleep deprivation

IT’S a worrying fact that more than half of us will get cancer in our lifetime.Each year around 385,000 people are diagnosed and 167,000 lives are l

A MUM who wore nappies on her period after childbirth was shocked when doctors discovered the hidden cause.Shannon Webster, 28, had always struggled w

EIGHT babies have died in the UK whooping cough outbreak, health officials say. Cases have also risen by 32 per cent in England between March and Apr

A COMMON hormone already produced by the body could stop early-stage Alzheimer’s in its tracks.Leptin is released by fat cells and is involved in ap

IN a world with growing obesity rates, fat jabs have arrived and taken the weight-loss market by storm.The injections have allegedly helped celebritie

GRINDING insects into flour could help people in the UK overcome their reluctance to eat them, scientists claim.The market for insects is growing as a

CHILDREN born via Caesarean are at greater risk of catching measles, a study suggests.Around one third of women have C-sections, either planned or as

YOU may have all the intentions of eating healhty lunches, but no idea of where to start.A good place is the advice of a dietician, who knows exactly

VAPING could damage teenagers’ developing brains because liquids contain toxic metals, according to research.E-cigs are assumed to be safer than cig

“CANCER is a big scary word,” Dame Deborah James said just over a year before she died.“But the earlier it’s caught the better your chance of

A BABY'S rare condition has left her with a "unicorn horn" that her parents adore.Claire Burt was shocked when she first saw her daughter Lulu, who wa

YOU’RE less likely to die if you're seen to by a female doctor, a study has found.The outcomes of more than 700,000 over 65s who were hospitalised w

CELEBRITIES go for some bold looks at times – and Simon Cowell is no exception.But when the music and TV mogul returned to our screens on Saturday n

DO you feel as though you’re hyper-sensitive, unable to switch off, always busy, or constantly exhausted? If this sounds familiar, your nervous sy

A MAJOR change is coming to the high street to help women take control of their health.Holland & Barrett is introducing a Women’s Health Coach t

SMOKING is set to be effectively banned in just a few years after new proposed legislation passed its first Commons hurdle.Young people in the UK woul

A 34-year-old man has described how a porn addiction left him at the “bottom of a pit” before his wife discovered his secret.The man said he’d w

A MUM feels “deceived” by doctors after her “healthy” baby was in fact living with a heart condition that could have killed him.Katie George,

A WOMAN who thought nothing of her urinary tract infection (UTI) was later told she in fact had stage four bowel cancer.Ellie Wilcock, 26, said

A HEALTHY and “full of life” 20-year-old man died after waking up and telling his mum he “felt rubbish” and had sore legs.Mackenzie Allan Scot