Frankie Davies 
A change to your bowel habits is less likely to be cancer, but you should be mindful of any changes, said Gemma Stuart, founding owner of Gutsy Health, makers of Gut Wealth. She said: “As a nation we’re quite reserved, you don’t often find people talking openly about their toilet habits and those that suffer … Read more
Dry January: It means you don’t drink alcohol for the month of January. Experts say it gives your body a chance to reset and allows you to re-evaluate your relationship with alcohol – and it’s getting more popular. What began when U.K. resident Emily Robinson paused her drinking to train for a half-marathon in 2011 … Read more
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — Joyce Loaiza lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, the retired office worker often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks about her day. A few miles away, the same voice comforted 83-year-old Deanna Dezern when her friend died. In central … Read more
My husband and I have been married for five years. I have a close group of female friends and previously we have got along with them and their husbands. However, recently, the other husbands have excluded my husband from social gatherings. I feel that one of them, let’s call him Roger, purposely excludes him and … Read more
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Popular online adult film sites in Texas have published “Texas Health and Human Services” disclaimers warning visitors about the unproven health risks of watching porn, reports 404 Media. The move comes after a US appeals court temporarily overturned an order blocking a Texas law that required porn sites to verify users’ ages and display government … Read more
Curtis S. Chin, a former U.S. ambassador to the Asian Development Bank, is managing director of advisory firm RiverPeak Group. Jose B. Collazo is an analyst focusing on the Indo-Pacific region. Follow them on X at @CurtisSChin and @JoseBCollazo. As 2023 comes to a close, we take a look at the year that was in … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for a woman who was denied emergency contraception in 2019 told the Minnesota Court of Appeals Thursday that the pharmacist who refused to fill the prescription discriminated against her on the basis of her sex. But an attorney for George Badeaux, the pharmacist at Thrifty White in central Minnesota, said his … Read more
The Alberta government is committing $200 million to help family doctors keep the lights on while a new funding agreement with physicians is hammered out. “This is stabilization money to keep those practices going,” Dr. Paul Parks, president of the Alberta Medical Association, told a news conference Thursday, standing alongside Premier Danielle Smith and Health … Read more
Experts warn three illnesses are circulating around the UK in the run up to Christmas. With the weather taking a colder turn, viruses and other bugs seem to pick up pace. And, with Britons socialising over the festive period, these bugs have more chance to spread. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has described the … Read more
Dec. 21, 2023 — In 2013, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos went on 60 Minutes to make a bold announcement: In 5 years, Amazon customers would be getting deliveries by drones. People could receive just about any item they wanted in only 30 minutes. A decade later, drones haven’t exactly become ubiquitous. As one headline teased, the company’s … Read more
