As a hairdresser of 16 years, Lauren Mackellar’s identity was wrapped up in everything hair care.
The 38-year-old, from Melbourne, was a stylist to the stars and working on her own line of hair products towards the end of 2021 when everything came crashing down.
An ‘excruciating’ migraine brought her to the emergency department where doctors found a fist-sized aggressive tumour in Lauren’s brain and she was rushed to surgery in the matter of hours to have it removed.
Surgery
Ashley Walters says black people’s stories are better told by black creatives after starring in Netflix drama Top Boy, which was developed by a white writer.
The actor, 41, – who plays Dushane in the popular show whose final series was released on Thursday – gave his opinion on Ronan Bennett, 67, being the show’s screenwriter.
He also reflected on his prison stint and told how if his arrest had never happened he would never have been in the show.
May 3 this year was my first day as The Mail on Sunday’s Deputy City Editor. But instead of attending the regular Tuesday morning meeting, I was in a hospital being diagnosed with cervical cancer – at just 31 years old.
I went into the office after the appointment sobbing, having to explain to my new bosses that tests had detected two small tumours. I would need surgery to remove any remaining pre-cancerous cells and a series of tests to
In the early 20th century, the patchwork of the United States was quilted together by almost 300,000 miles of railroad lines. When train transport fell into disuse in the 1950s and ’60s, a movement began to transform those abandoned industrial corridors into recreational space. Those miles of track had the potential to be ideal bike paths, thanks to limited incline and their proximity to towns which stood to benefit from a new kind of tourism.
There are many ways, and
A novel sleeping bag could be key to stopping astronauts developing optical health complications in space, including swelling of the optical nerve and vision loss.
The sack, built at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, works by using vacuum tech to pull down body fluids that would otherwise pool in the head.
A similar increase in brain pressure occurs when you lie down at night, although on Earth, getting up in the morning fixes this by allowing gravity to
You only have to look at how video games have evolved over the decades to know that they are becoming more and more expensive to make. Unless we’re talking about indie games, we’re long past the days of simple pixel art characters running through a handful of stages with repeating patterns, a limited color palette, and short, looping music. Games have ballooned into massive worlds where each strand of a character’s hair is detailed, dynamic lighting fills the landscape, and
