Lifestyle

By Abbey Haigh, 21     My problems all started just after I’d hit puberty, I was about 13 when I got my first urinary tract infection. In the beginning drinking lots of water and bearing the pain for a few days meant it would clear up for a while but over time the symptoms and the pain got worse. Once I became sexually active I started to discover other problems for instance; pain and bleeding during and after intercourse...

By Alexandra Nemeth My problems started in high school when a friend introduced me to a model & dancing company. The pressure and expectations were high at both the school and model company. My problems started one day when the company owner said I had to lose more weight. Other team members heard this and they all came to talk to me and advised against it. But I was the new one and the youngest and I also knew we...

By Render Positive London was never a particularly cheap place to live – in fact, Rightmove’s figures suggest that the average asking price of a property in London has risen by £80,000 since the start of 2014. As a result, prices are now at an all-time high, and only look set to rise in future. However, as is to be expected, some boroughs are significantly more expensive than others, with some enjoying a meteoric rise in prices following different developments,...

By Lisa Milella After I was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease six months ago I decided to spend the time I had left helping the world's most endangered species around the globe, from India to the rainforests of Borneo. My bucket list also included sledging with huskies under the Northern Lights in Norway, canoeing up the Amazon and helping rescued dancing bears, a leopard cub and a tiger with toothache in India. When I was told I had a terminal...

By Joe Mellor Deputy Editor Last week a group of MPs and peers have called for an overhaul of the way the rental industry is run to provide better protection for families who do not own their own home. Well until that is sorted out (don’t hold your breath) www.rentalraters.com are the TripAdvisor of the rental market, to alert you to dodgy landlords. It is an on-line community that praises the best and (literally) rubbishes the worst. We have compiled...

By Jack Peat  In an information economy where our personal data is wilfully publicised, recorded and used for political and corporate gain, the question of whether we are living the prophesied dystopian theories of Nineteen Eighty-Four is more poignant than ever. George Orwell’s timeless work paints a frightening picture of official deception, secret surveillance and manipulation of history by a totalitarian, authoritarian state. A world where language is a heretic tool that be controlled and used. Words with negative meanings...

  By Jo Walker, Senior Press Officer, Beating Bowel Cancer We all spend a fair bit of time on the loo over our lifetimes but tend to avoid talking about any problems we might have there, which can lead to life- threatening illnesses going unchecked. Londoner, Stephen Browne, was a healthy 45-year-old when he was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2012. Each year 41,600 people in the UK get diagnosed with bowel cancer – that’s someone every 15 minutes. Early...

By Simon Richardson Around a year ago, I was in the middle of a gruelling battle against drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), taking a cocktail of drugs with horrific side effects and fighting for my life. If you’d told me then that just over a year later I’d be a fully trained soldier and planning to cycle the length of Great Britain, I’d never have believed you. But here I am. I wanted to mark a year free of TB by setting...

  Dr Barbara Kubicka, MD, CIME/ICAM, MBCAM Aesthetic Physician Too often, dermatologists and non-surgical skin treatment practitioners think in terms of delivering treatments.  It’s simple – a patient asks for botox injections or dermal fillers, you give them some and everybody’s happy – right? Actually, at my skin clinic in Belgravia/Knightsbridge, we work very differently, putting the patient before the treatment programme. That means understanding who they are in quite some detail. To really get a detailed picture of what...