A bracing dip will cure us of the menopause, will it? Remind me to steer clear of the sewage

A new study suggests a fashionable hobby could help with hot flushes and other symptoms

‘My life will be short. So on the days I can, I really live’: 30 dying people explain what really matters

Facing death, these people found a clarity about how to live

Experience: I woke up from a Covid coma with newborn twins

Even when I saw the babies, I thought it was a dream and they weren’t mine

You be the judge: should my boyfriend stop filling our flat with empty water bottles?

Lara says old plastic bottles lying around their flat are ‘ick’, but for gym-bunny John, they’re practical and cheap. You decide whose argument holds water

Doctors complain to BBC over Dragons’ Den contestant’s claim ‘to have cured ME’

Entrepreneurs on TV show’s panel all offered to invest in business selling ear seeds as part of treatment for chronic illness

Why it’s time to get a new notebook: ‘To grab at life, tug at the details and hold on’

Writing down observations is a way of marking presence in the world, says Briohny Doyle, who once wrote most of a novel in notebooks while out on walks

A moment that changed me: My body seemed like a death machine – until I saw those two blue lines

After cancer, chemotherapy and temporary menopause, I didn’t dare imagine having a baby. But all of a sudden my womb was designing a whole new life

Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food

The long read: Nicholas Saunders was a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a total remaking of the way Britain eats

One energy drink a month increases risk of disturbed sleep, study finds

People consuming cans daily sleep half an hour less than those drinking occasionally or never, researchers say

Resenteeism: when you hate your job – but you just can’t leave

During the Great Resignation, many unhappy workers decided to quit. Now a new word describes all those who couldn’t quite make the leap …