1+ hour, 5+ min ago  (509+ words) Autism in children may be overdiagnosed and wrongly branding socially anxious children with the condition could have "harmful implications, researchers have said." Experts said that behaviours such as difficulty maintaining eye contact or "toe-walking " walking on the balls of the…...

20+ hour, 47+ min ago  (1159+ words) For the past seven years, I have built a community on Instagram offering support and advice for women navigating infertility. This year, I counted 29, 400 hard-earned Instagram followers. My podcast has nearly 400 episodes and more than 2. 3 million global downloads. Now my…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (610+ words) A growing population of false widow spiders has been blamed for a doubling of hospital admissions for spider bites in England over the past decade. Provisional NHS figures showed there were 100 admissions as a result of "contact with or toxic…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (692+ words) Social media and expensive home-testing kits are behind an increase in people self-diagnosing with food intolerances, dieticians have warned. More than half of food intolerances, which are less serious than allergies, have been diagnosed without the help of a medical…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (721+ words) Karelia, a vast region of birch forests and huge lakes that straddles part of eastern Finland and a sizeable chunk of northwestern Russia, is perhaps an unlikely place to find answers to the global allergy epidemic. Yet it was here,…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago  (325+ words) Hip pain is common, especially as we age. A sedentary lifestyle can be to blame; if you are active, pain in the hips might indicate poor exercise technique, not enough stretching or overworking the hip flexors, the muscles around the…...

8+ mon, 5+ day ago  (823+ words) A new study suggests spinning could cut NHS waiting lists. Peta Bee on why the low-impact, high-intensity exercise is so good for midlifers The 1990s workout we should all be doing for our health (and hips) A new study suggests spinning…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (436+ words) Zone two is the sweet spot where your heart gets a meaningful workout without being pushed into stress mode," says Dr Heeraj Bulluck, an interventional cardiologist at Leeds General Infirmary and author of Heart Reset 40: a Cardiologist's Science-Backed Plan to…...

3+ day, 39+ min ago  (719+ words) Traditional fish and chips, fried chicken nuggets and jam doughnuts will be banned from school dinners in changes to be announced this week. Ministers will unveil new food standards for all schools in England on Monday in the first major…...

3+ day, 24+ min ago  (1469+ words) An afternoon of cutting and sewing sofas together would always leave Bruce Jack's glasses "white with the dust." "It was sort of like talcum powder. It would clog up all the needles, he said. The dust was residue from the…...