Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals
Viewing original works of art can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds
You were asleep but swear you weren’t: what is paradoxical insomnia?
We don’t always know when we’re asleep or awake. This can affect how rested we feel
The kindness of strangers: when I found out my cancer had spread, the woman in the next bed reached out
The doctors told me I would need a second mastectomy and extensive chemotherapy. I felt as if I’d been hit by a truck
Heard the one about the three vicars who went to the cinema – and were taught a lesson in tolerance?
Watching the film I Swear, at first I was irked by the shouting and swearing from an audience member. But I ended up thanking him, says vicar and standup comedian Ravi Holy
‘The pressure to get your old body back is immense’: the new mothers driven to weight-loss jabs
The NHS warns against using GLP-1s while breastfeeding – for the baby’s sake as well as the mother’s. But how much does that count when they’re so readily available and there’s so much pressure to ‘bounce back’?
‘An unsolved mystery of science’: why do I dream about my teeth falling out?
Experts say such dreams of dental distress may relate to the processing of various emotions and experiences
‘Chasing the ideal gut’: poop-tracking cameras claim to give health insights. Are they necessary?
Products like Dekoda can run up to $600 and photograph your every bowel movement – but who owns that data?
Dr Jill Tattersall obituary
Other lives: Doctor who co-founded a clinic to provide unmarried women and girls with contraception in Sheffield in the 1960s
Beyond chicken soup: what chefs and doctors eat when they’re sick (or just hungover)
Laid up with the flu? Suffering with a sore throat? From chicken bhuna to fire honey, this food should get you back on your feet
Pregnant women in England at ‘growing risk’ of serious injury in childbirth
NHS figures show number of mothers sustaining third- or fourth-degree perineal tear has increased by 16% since 2020