Lifestyle
Smoking a joint could improve the memory of people with dementia
The chemical that makes people feel 'high' destroys rogue brain proteins behind the devastating illness
Nearly 9 in 10 young people would tell friends & family they are ‘fine’ even if struggling with mental health problem
New research released by the mental health anti-stigma campaign, Time to Change, reveals that when asked, nearly nine in ten (88%) 16-24-year-olds would tell friends and family they are ‘fine’, even if struggling with a mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety. When asked why, responses suggest young people doubt whether those around them really want to hear the honest answer. The top concerns were: I don’t want to burden people (59%) Just because people ask how you are, doesn’t mean...
It costs Brits £43.92 a year to ‘spend a penny’
It costs Brits £43.92 a year to ‘spend a penny’, a study has found. The average adult will shell out for drinks, snacks and even full meals in order to use a shop or restaurant’s toilet guilt-free. And almost £3 is spent just paying to get into public toilets in places such as train stations and parks. But in a cruel twist of irony, a quarter of respondents have paid to use a toilet only to then succumb to ‘stage...
Mum paralysed in car crash walks again thanks to Iron Man robotics
Emotional footage shows Monique Kelley, 28, taking steps using an exoskeleton as part of a clinical trial
Child Leukemia survivor set to graduate as paediatric nurse
Katy Payne, 20 wanted to give back and help the children who are suffering the same trauma she did as a child
Report Card: Govt could do much better on children’s right to play
The UK is a signatory of the UN Convention on the Rights of The Child, whose articles include The Right to Play: A31: States Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts. States Parties shall respect and promote the right of the child to participate fully in cultural and artistic life and...
We adopted and it changed our lives for the better
Anna and Jack adopted their daughters Olivia and Emily through Coram in 2013. Here Anna shares the joys and challenges of the family’s adoption journey. Adoption is something we first started to properly consider after unsuccessful IVF treatment. We’d been seeing a counsellor at that time due to everything we’d been through and they gave us some information to help us if we did decide to pursue that route. After our initial phone call to Coram we went along to...
One family’s journey to teacher their deaf daughter to speak & listen
When Susan Rosenthal and her husband James' daughter Aimee’s was diagnosed deaf the family’s journey began to teach her to speak and listen, this is their story... When our baby daughter Aimee failed her newborn hearing screening test and we thought nothing of it. It was only at the follow up appointment six weeks later when we learned that she had a bilateral moderate to severe hearing loss that we felt that our word had crumbled. Since Aimee was such a...
After cancer treatment I was told I could never walk…but look at me now!
Following his bone marrow transplant for Leukaemia Duncan suffered an infection in his spine which resulted in total paralysis from the waist down (something that is unheard of in itself) - his neurologist told him she was unsure if I would ever walk again – however through his treatment of reflexology he got his feeling back and now can walk again, this is his story... At the end of 2012 I noticed I had been getting very tired easily and had bouts of nausea...