There’s no excuse for chopping down a thing of beauty. And I don’t just mean the Sycamore Gap tree
Talking therapies save lives, keep people out of hospital, help them back into work. So why is NHS England cutting them in its ‘financial reset’?
‘Mum, my brain’: how I learned to walk, talk and even dance again after a devastating stroke at 36
I was riding high as a music journalist with a new book in the shops when I had what I thought was a migraine. In fact, it was a burst aneurysm and I needed emergency surgery. Two years into my recovery, can I learn how to find joy again?
Athletes and fitness influencers use creatine, but what is it? And does it work?
We find out if this fitness supplement can be used to build muscle mass, decrease fatigue and improve mental health
Fake fitness influencers: the secrets and lies behind the world’s most envied physiques
The Liver King’s raw-meat-to-ripped-abs regime has been exposed – but thousands of other influencers claim their bulging muscles are just the result of hard, honest graft. Should we believe them?
How Charlie discovered that time wealth can be the key to a slower, happier life
Feeling tired and out of touch with what really matters to him, a busy father tries a few behavioural experiments
‘I lost so much weight, my husband thought I was terminally ill’: why do people lie about taking Ozempic?
The dramatic results of weight-loss drugs often come with a side order of stigma, as though it’s ‘cheating’ not to stick to willpower, diet and exercise alone. Is that why so many are telling no one – not even their partners?
My patient’s cancer was curable but for years she endured painful sex. This story is all too familiar
Many cancer patients suffer sexual health problems but this important quality of life indicator is woefully ignored
Chronic pain sent Jabez into a spiral of despair. Behaviour therapy brought her back
A new study has found that helping sufferers manage their emotions lessens their experience of chronic pain
Are you a people pleaser? It’s time to find out what you really want
It’s easy to go through life mirroring what others want and how they see you. But don’t you deserve more?
Pathemata by Maggie Nelson review – a writer’s attempt to describe chronic pain
Woolf said language ‘runs dry’ when it comes to convey the reality of illness. Here is an impressive effort to do just that