Health

New data from mental health charity Mind gives an insight into the mental health of 15,000 employees participating in Mind’s first ever Workplace Wellbeing Index, a brand new benchmark of best policy and practice when it comes to staff mental health. Thirty organisations took part in the Index including Deloitte, HMRC, the Environment Agency, Jaguar Land Rover and PepsiCo. According to the survey, of those staff who had disclosed poor mental health at work (2,200 employees), just over half (53...

A 12-year-old girl has been left paralysed from the neck down after suffering an alleged reaction to the HPV vaccine. Tragic Mia Blesky has no feeling in her arms or legs and is unable to lift her head or do anything but blink, talk and sing. Video clips filmed days before she fell ill shows the talented youngster - who dreams of being a popstar - standing, clutching a microphone and belting out a tune. Harrowing videos show how her...

Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental condition experienced by more one in 100 people in the UK. Individuals with this condition experience persistent difficulties in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts and restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests and activities which may include stereotyped or repetitive motor movements; insistence on sameness; highly restricted and fixated interests, and hyper or hypo reactivity to sensory input (e.g. sound, smell, taste and touch). Despite extensive research, including numerous neuroimaging studies, we still...

Modern life really does kill after a remote tribe living deep in the Amazon were found to have the healthiest arteries ever studied. A new study estimates that an 80-year-old from the Tsimane has the same vascular age as an American in their mid-fifties. Heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose were also much lower, probably as a result of the tribe's lifestyle, according to the researchers. The indigenous Tsimane people, who live in the Bolivian Amazon, have the...

A good night's kip is as good as winning £200,000 on the lottery, according to new research. A study found boosting slumber would make Brits as happy as scooping the jackpot. Scientists analysed the sleep patterns of more than 30,500 people and calculated what it would be worth in terms of mental and physical wellbeing. Improved quality and quantity of shut eye over four years were linked with higher scores on the General Health Questionnaire - a tool used by...

Falling off the wagon is a frustrating but often inevitable part of New Year’s resolutions. The good news is that you’re not alone: 80% of people fail their New Year's resolutions by February. However, this shouldn’t mean you’re confined to a month of depressing failure, it can also be the month you start again. You’ve learnt from your mistakes and can use this to perfect your goals second time round. Whether it’s swapping the gym for corporate wellness programmes, or...

Along with heart disease and diabetes, prostate cancer could become one of the most important health issues for men within the next 20 years so it’s important that all men are aware of the risk factors and possible symptoms which they should always discuss with their GP. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK – it kills one man every hour and currently there are over a quarter of a million men living with the...

Denise is 49-years-old and is struggling in the benefits system. She’s currently living in Bristol, but is from Leicestershire. Denise’s diagnosis is Bipolar type II. She was diagnosed in 1991 when she was around 24 or 25. But she’d experienced mental health problems since age 16. She was misdiagnosed with depression and PTSD before getting the right diagnosis and the right treatment. Denise also has physical health problems - fibromyalgia, mobility issues and inflammatory bowel disease. Her energy levels vary...

You don't walk into a car dealership before you did some research first. The same should be true for choosing a personal trainer. But it might be challenging to do the research, when you don’t know what to look for in the first place. Right Path Fitness team did some preliminary research for you and shared what great personal trainers are made of. 1. Experience You don’t want to be practicing with a generalist or an amateur. In that case,...