Archive for 'Wellbeing'

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 [...]

Male infertility Male infertility is soaring. So why do doctors keep blaming the woman when she can’t have a baby?

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

The Daily Mail 5 December 2012 Lois Rogers To the outside world, Dennis Robinson has an enviable life. Happily married to an attractive woman with a comfortable home and a secure job, he is a father figure to his wife’s eight-year-old son. There is, however, a yawning chasm in Dennis’s life. He cannot father a [...]

Do looks matter?

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

The Sunday Times Published: 09 October 2011. Lois Rogers. Genital remodelling has hit the mainstream. But what´s behind the demand for this private perfection? Whether or not women should wear a bra was a subject for debate in the early days of feminism. More than 40 years later, the argument has moved down to knickers [...]