Tag: health
The babies banking on donated breast milk
When their mothers’ own milk is not available to babies, milk given by screened donor mothers can be the next best thing ...
Science Society
Nature: in Shetland, it’s just what the doctor ordered
GPs in Shetland are now able to prescribe nature to their patients, thanks to a partnership between NHS Shetland and RSPB Scotland...
Environment Lifestyle UK
From scrapheap to snapped up. How do you work when you’re chronically ill?
Matching businesses to job-hunters with chronic illnesses, the Astriid website highlights the UK’s ‘invisible talent pool’. We met the man b...
Lifestyle Society
Battle, fighting, beat: is the language of war really good for our health?
It can serve to rally and empower, but could ‘battling’ disease also be holding us back? Nathaniel Hughes, a medical herbalist, asks if it’s...
Lifestyle Opinion Society
Breaking bad news
How do you tell someone that they’re seriously ill, or even dying? Chrissie Giles explores how doctors learn and how they deal with the stre...
Opinion Society
Birth rights: sisterhood and sexual empowerment in Kenya
These Kenyan women are campaigning to improve sexual and reproductive rights in their communities. To try to stamp out female genital mutila...
Lifestyle Society World
