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How to ‘switch on’ your anti-ageing genes – and live longer

Health
Rachel Carter

You’ve probably referred to them negatively – blaming them for your weight, bad habits or thinning hair. But while you can’t change ...

Is bread healthy? What it does to your body and best types to buy

Health
Rachel Carter

The most nutritious supermarket white Bertinet Bakery White Sourdough, 500g for £1.68 (33.6p per 100g) This ‘white’ bread also contains wholemeal and ...

I’ve drunk Guinness all my life and I’ve never had a hangover or a beer belly

Health
Rachel Carter

When I moved to London with the rest of my Ryanair generation, there ensued frenzied debates about where we could get “a ...

Two women died after eating sandwiches containing listeria, inquest hears

Health
Rachel Carter

Two women died after eating hospital chicken mayo sandwiches suspected of containing listeria, an inquest heard. Retired Jamaican nurse Beverley Sowah, 57, ...

I lost four stone and reversed my Type 2 diabetes when I gave up my London commute

Health
Rachel Carter

How the right nutrition can reverse Type 2 diabetes “If you have Type 2 diabetes or are pre-diabetic, it’s a good idea ...

Oxford University held training sessions for Chinese doctors accused of harvesting organs

Health
Rachel Carter

It said the practice ended in 2015 and that all organs have been supplied voluntarily since then. However, experts argue that death-row ...

British Medical Journal ‘played along with Hamas’, claims leading US doctor

Health
Rachel Carter

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has been accused by a leading doctor of “playing along with Hamas” in its coverage of the ...

The one thing I wish people would stop asking me when I tell them I have an autistic child

Health
Rachel Carter

So I suppose I can partly understand the fact that people without any experience of neurodiversity might wonder why autism and ADHD ...

Covid pandemic may have been started by scientists, says UN professor

Health
Rachel Carter

Covid could have been created by a “research-related incident”, the UN has heard at the launch of a report calling for better ...

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of consciousness – and the discoveries are troubling

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

Our age-old (and some might say naïve) conception of human nature has long held on to three dogmas. The first is that ...