Category Archives: People
Cracking idea to thicken hair with windscreen fixer
The Sunday Times 12 January 2014 SCIENTISTS working for one of the world’s biggest cosmetics companies claim to have developed a shampoo that thickens hair by using technology devised to repair chipped car windscreens. Experts at L’Oréal say filloxane, a new ingredient in a forthcoming range of hair products, works like the silica gel particles […]
Should your grumpy old man be on HRT? Despite doctors’ concerns,growing numbers of men insist testosterone jabs have transformed their lives
The Daily Mail 1 January 2014 Like many men in early middle age, David Quincey felt the best years of his life were already over. At 42 he was putting on weight. He was depressed and irritated by the demands of his teenage children. He felt tired out, unsexy and generally past it. ‘I was […]
Flabby fellas in rush for testosterone
The Sunday Times 24 November 2013 THOUSANDS of men are receiving testosterone on the NHS to combat the male menopause even though there is little evidence it has any health benefits and may even increase their risk of a heart attack or stroke. In recent years testosterone has been seized upon by overweight, middle-aged males […]
Drug firms look away while my children die
The Sunday Times 17 November 2013 A MOTHER has been told that her three teenage children will die before reaching adulthood — and there is nothing doctors can do to save them. Shekeela Ahmed, 45, a businesswoman, has already lost her eldest daughter, Sonam, 17, to Lafora disease, a rare aggressive form of epilepsy. Her […]
Hats off to science – a gene cure for baldness is nigh
The Sunday Times 19 August 2012 Lois Rogers SCIENTISTS believe they have unlocked the secret of baldness after discovering an enzyme that tells hair follicles to switch off. Drugs to block the effects of the enzyme, called prostaglandin D2 (PGD2), are already available because it is also implicated in asthma and other allergic conditions. As […]
Benn buries old rivalry to save home of Ted Heath
The Sunday Times Published: 16 October 2011. Lois Rogers. Putting political rivalry aside, Tony Benn has emerged as an unlikely figurehead of a campaign to keep Ted Heath’s home open for the public For decades, they roamed Westminster as rival “big beasts” of the politicial world but the former Labour minister Tony Benn has become […]