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The truth about depression: six people speak out

This article titled “The truth about depression: six people speak out” was written by Mark Rice-Oxley, for The Guardian on Wednesday 14th March 2012 19.15 UTC Depression is not picky. Men, women, rich, poor, white, black. No one is immune. It is not just an illness for people with dark, mysterious pasts or chaotic presents. It is ubiquitous. Empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests this is fast becoming the disease du jour. Antidepressant prescriptions have soared. The World...Read More

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Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: is yoga too dangerous for me?

This article titled “Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: is yoga too dangerous for me?” was written by Luisa Dillner, for The Guardian on Sunday 22nd January 2012 21.29 UTC Yoga, once the pastime of contemplative types, now comes in more varieties than ice-cream. All yoga has postures, relaxation and controlled breathing as core ingredients. But some schools emphasise power and strength and can include exercises that verge on the unnatural. Headstands, which you tell your children...Read More

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Hard at it in the all-night gym

This article titled “Hard at it in the all-night gym” was written by Patrick Kingsley, for The Guardian on Sunday 29th January 2012 21.00 UTC Well, this is odd. I’m in the gym – The Gym in Vauxhall, south London, to be precise – and Michaeljohn Gonzalez is pumping iron. Nothing strange about that, you might think. This is, after all, a gymnasium. It’s just the time of day that is a bit weird: it is 4am. Weirder still, Gonzalez is not alone. On the treadmill runs...Read More

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Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: should I have an HIV test?

This article titled “Dr Dillner’s health dilemmas: should I have an HIV test?” was written by Luisa Dillner, for The Guardian on Monday 5th December 2011 20.29 UTC The dilemma One in four people with HIV do not know they are infected, says the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in its annual report on HIV in the UK. There are 91,500 people living with HIV which means around 23,000 of us don’t know we are infected. Could you be one of them? The HPA says that the undiagnosed...Read More

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Could your hair dye kill you?

This article titled “Could your hair dye kill you?” was written by Sali Hughes, for The Guardian on Monday 28th November 2011 21.30 UTC A 38-year-old woman from Keighley, West Yorkshire was in a coma last week following a suspected allergic reaction to a home hair dye. Doctors have given Julie McCabe, who coloured her hair with L’Oréal Preference colourant three weeks ago, an 8% chance of survival with little chance of a full recovery. McCabe’s case is the latest in a...Read More