Archive for 'Society'

Drug that steals women’s lives: It’s more addictive than heroin, with horrifying side-effects. So why, 50 years after its launch, is Valium still given to millions?

Posted 14 March 2013 | By | Categories: Health, Health Policy, Society, Uncategorized, Wellbeing | Comments Off

The Daily Mail 7 March 2013 Lois Rogers With her wedding day fast approaching, Baylissa Fredericks was increasingly worried about a nervous tic in her eyelid. She’d suffered the problem since early childhood, but was so concerned about it drawing attention to her for all the wrong reasons on her big day that she visited [...]

Britain’s power women are getting slimmer

Posted 11 September 2012 | By | Categories: Society | Comments Off

The Sunday Times Published 24 June 2012 Lois Rogers IT IS the phenomenon that is providing experts with plenty of food for thought: while everyone else is piling on the pounds, professional women are slimming down. According to official figures from the National Obesity Observatory (NOO), an organisation established in 2007 to provide authoritative data [...]

Man gives birth to baby

Posted 01 March 2012 | By | Categories: Society | Comments Off

The Sunday Times Published: 12 February 2012 Lois Rogers A man who was born as a woman has become Britain’s first “male mother” by giving birth despite his sex change operation. The man, in his thirties, delivered the child last year after having hormone treatment to reactivate his womb, according to a charity advising him. [...]

Flash, bang, dollop – ingredients used in film ‘stop signs of ageing’

Posted 22 January 2012 | By | Categories: Science, Society | Comments Off

The Sunday Times Published: 22 January 2012 Lois Rogers The chemical process that stops old photographic negatives from fading has been adapted to do much the same for people, a cosmetics manufacturer claims. With digital cameras killing off traditional photographic film, the Japanese company Fujifilm has partly reinvented itself as a supplier of anti-ageing treatments [...]

The Cameron Fat Tax Diet (Lose pounds fast!)

Posted 09 October 2011 | By | Categories: Society | Comments Off

The Sunday Times Published: 9 October 2011. Lois Rogers. Should we tax curries, butter and other fatty foods to curb rising obesity? Ministers are watching as other nations impose levies Like many people, Denise Townsend knew she was eating too much. She was fat and depressed, but the temptations were just too great. In every [...]