Psychiatry, from its very inception, has been subject to raised eyebrows if not outright ridicule. Even before Freud came along with his batty theories about infantile sexuality and repressed wishes to kill one’s father, the discipline had struggled to define its methods and objectives. More than two centuries after it emerged as a profession devoted to the care—and hoped-for cure—of the mentally ill, psychiatry is still seen by many as half-baked, neither a science nor an art, pulled
It was officially described 115 years ago. But billions of pounds and hundreds of failed trials later, scientists still haven’t been able to crack one of the world’s most devastating diseases — Alzheimer’s.
Curing the cruel memory-robbing disorder is considered one of the Holy Grails of medicine but it has alluded scientists for decades. Currently, the only approved drugs for Alzheimer’s merely dampen some of the symptoms — and only temporarily — but do not stop the disease from progressing.
Sitting cross-legged on a board, eyes closed, palms pointing to the sky, the woman next to me is talking in a soothing, if slightly ethereal, voice. ‘Welcome to the sea,’ she says. ‘You’re about to float away.’
And with that, I do, bobbing a good 50 yards around the Scottish coast, my instructor guiding my board as I drift into a meditative trance.
I’m on a water retreat, part of a new and increasingly popular wellbeing trend to harness the
The actor and vaccine sceptic Laurence Fox announced on Twitter last Sunday that he’d tested positive for Covid – or ‘the Omnicold’, as he scornfully called it.
The 43-year-old, now leader of the anti-woke Reclaim Party, who says he has not been jabbed, explained that he was treating himself with a regime that included painkillers, a nasal rinse and ivermectin – a prescription anti-parasitic drug.
Ivermectin has been touted as a miracle Covid cure that costs pennies – although it’s
PULLOUGH, Irland – Sonntagmorgens kommen sie zwei Stunden lang mit allem, was ihnen wehtut, in den Pub. Ein kleiner Junge mit einem Ausschlag. Ein Bauer mit Ringelflechte. Ein Mann mit einer Halsentzündung.
Sie sind hier, um Joe Gallagher zu sehen, dem dieser kanariengelbe Pub gehört, der sich an einem Kanal im winzigen irischen Dorf Pullough in der Grafschaft Offaly befindet.
Sie glauben, dass er als siebter Sohn seiner Familie ein Heilmittel besitzt.
“Ich bin mein ganzes Leben lang dabei”, sagte
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A mother-of-one has revealed how she was able to get over her ‘paralysing’ lifelong phobia of dogs with just five weekly Zoom sessions with a therapist.
Cheralene Lavery, from London, saw her mother badly bitten by a dog when she was a child and has been ‘terrified’ of the animals ever since.
She revealed she was so frightened she would ‘freeze’ whenever she saw a dog, defriended people if they got one as a pet and even ended relationships over
The campaign group delivered the petition to Downing Street. (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster)
His vow comes four months after the Sunday Express launched our Fund The Fight To Cure MND crusade, joining forces with leading patients, campaigners and charities to call for the money to create a MND Research Institute.
The PM last night promised new hope for patients and their loved ones, and said he would “throw the full weight of government” behind a new, British-led scientific mission to find
Und es ist nicht nötig, kopfüber einzutauchen. Hannah Finchamp, Mitglied des US-amerikanischen Olympia-Mountainbiketeams 2020, empfiehlt, langsam zu starten und auf anspruchsvolleren Strecken zu arbeiten.
„Du willst nicht deine ganze Fahrt ängstlich verbringen! Beginnen Sie mit den Feuerwegen und glatteren Wegen; Sie können die Schwierigkeit erhöhen, wenn Sie sich wohl fühlen. “
Die Suche nach Orten, an denen Sie in der Nähe Ihres Wohnortes fahren können, ist ein guter Weg, um Mountainbike zu fahren. Aber sobald Sie einen
