The main reasons for diabetes among young people are excess weight and obesity, concluded a report by the NHS. According to Diabetes UK, the figures are ten times higher than in previous years. However, with…
A new study shows that one in five young Brits struggle with mental health disorders. A report conducted by the NHS revealed that 16.9% of 17 to 19-year-olds showed symptoms of emotional, behavioural, hyperactivity and…
Alcohol Awareness Week starts on 19th of November. The main theme this year is ‘Change’. According to Alcohol Concern, the UK’s leading independent alcohol charity, a change is ‘necessary, possible and… it is happening’. Why…
Mental heath is on the rise, with many falling into addiction – drugs and alcohol. Is this need for substance seen as being a get away when in the public eye? Over the past few…
Millennials will be remembered in the future as the “less is less” generation: less alcohol, less sex and less children. The medical journal The Lancet recently revealed that fertility rates between 1950 and 2017 faced…
Shetland island has started prescribing nature in conjunction with other treatments to their patients. This news comes after a successful pilot at Scalloway GP surgery, the largest island within the Shetlands. The prescription will acknowledge…
The clocks have gone back, 4:30 now feels like the witching hour and it is more of a struggle every morning to get up before the sun does. You may be feeling a little under-motivated,…
Counterculture American scientist and neuropsychiatrist Dr John C. Lily created and developed the isolation tank in the 1950’s to aid him in his exploration of the human consciousness. In order to truly study the human…
Your twenties are more often than not dubbed ‘the best years of your life’. No one thinks that a quarter-life crisis could happen during those years. The Independent stated that 82% of 24-35-year olds have…
Anti-vaccine campaigners have put in risk lives of children and youngsters by spreading myths around the web, to which England’s top doctor declared as “absolutely wrong” A year, up to 17,000 people in the EU…
