Lack of sleep could contribute to mental health problems, researchers reveal
Study finds therapy designed to treat insomnia also reduced paranoia and hallucinations, and improved depression and anxiety in patients
What’s stopping pharmacies doing more to reduce pressure on GPs?
Chemists can already provide vital services, such as the morning-after pill – but a new study shows they are being chronically underused
‘It’s like being reborn’: inside the care home opening its doors to toddlers
With benefits for older people’s physical and mental health, a new care home-based nursery in London is the first intergenerational care facility in the UK
Years of pain, but no diagnosis: one woman’s experience of endometriosis
Katie Beales suffered crippling monthly pain from the age of 14, but doctor after doctor failed to recognise a disease that impacts up to one in 10 women
‘Listen to women’: UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis
Disease, which causes crippling pain and can lead to infertility, affects 176 million women worldwide and currently takes seven to eight years to diagnose
‘I assumed it was all my fault’: the adults dealing with undiagnosed ADHD
It’s 30 years since the condition was recognised. It is most often associated with children, but more and more grownups are now being diagnosed. Does this help?
Jamie Oliver is right: people with dyslexia really do look at things differently
The chef calls those with dyslexia ‘lucky’ – and the long list of famous people with the condition proves his point
William Giraldi on life as a bookish bodybuilder: ‘It’s a poisoned way to be a man’
As a teenager, William Giraldi would pump himself full of steroids, hit the gym ... and secretly read Keats. His new memoir examines the absurdities of modern masculinity and envisages a better world in which his sons don’t get caught in its toxic grip
Is there such a thing as sugar addiction?
Given the choice, lab rats favour sugar over cocaine. Does that mean we are all hopelessly hooked – and what is eating too much sugar doing to our bodies?
Disturbed sleep patterns may be key to ADHD, study finds
Research links disruption of body clock to number of chronic conditions