Tag Archives: Life

How to cope when the holiday season doesn’t feel like a wonderful life: COLUMN

Even a wonderful life sometimes doesn’t feel very wonderful when the ghosts of Christmases past don’t just float back, they rush in to remind us how terrible we are or how life’s burdens are just too great. So we stockpile our perceived failures to validate and unwrap old shames and self-hatred. Personal negativity then merges… Read More »

‘My baby saved my life’

When Lisa Forrest was in the early stages of pregnancy with her first child, her GP sent her for a routine pap smear. She was stunned when the results showed some abnormalities. Further testing diagnosed the then 27 year old with cervical cancer. Twenty weeks into her pregnancy she faced the terrifying decision of either… Read More »

UK to boost life expectancy through increased focus on “predictive prevention”

Public Health England will bring together a group of experts to scale up the agency’s work on “predictive prevention”, enabling people to take greater control of their health and care through personalised advice and interventions, according to a new policy paper released this week. “We are testing new ways of providing people with preventative advice, using cutting edge technology… Read More »