By Adam Vaughan
Spending just 2 hours a week in green spaces such as parks, woodlands and fields has been linked with people feeling healthier and happier.
The health benefits of being out in nature have been well-documented and will seem common sense to many of us, but until now no one has quantified exactly how much time might be beneficial.
UNLESS you’ve been living under a stone, it would be hard not to have heard that sunlight is bad for you. In fact if you are living under a stone,
A miniature wearable sensor has been designed to let you know if you’ve spent too much or too little time in the sun.
Excess exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays can cause sunburn, premature skin ageing and skin cancer, while underexposure can lead to vitamin D deficiency and worsen skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis.
By Peta Bee, published in The Times on 4th September 2018
Teens
Peak growth spurts tend to be about the age of 12½ for girls and 14 for boys.
Honey and over-the-counter medicines should be the first line of treatment for most people with coughs, new guidelines recommend.
Antibiotics should rarely be prescribed by doctors for coughs because in most cases they do little to improve symptoms, health officials say.
Most of the time a cough will improve on its own within two to three weeks.
When would you call triple-0 for an ambulance? When a fall results in a nasty fracture? Concern that labour is progressing so rapidly that you’ll give birth before you can get to hospital? Weakness from prolonged vomiting and diarrhoea?
If you take a look at some Australian ambulance websites,
It’s July 1, which means we’re a third of the way through winter, halfway through the year and one day into Dry July.
Only 30 days to go, but who’s counting?
If you’re anything like me, the prospect of giving up booze for a month is a little daunting.
In December 2017 British woman Laura Plummer was jailed for three years for bringing 300 Tramadol painkiller tablets into Egypt. While the sentence shocked many in the UK, the case shone a light on a painkiller addiction problem blighting millions of Egyptians.
“When I was 15, we were playing PlayStation in a games arcade,
