After surgery and radiotherapy for breast cancer, Marie Jones was prescribed a daily pill to reduce the chances of the disease returning. But just three weeks into the planned five-year course of treatment, she ditched the tablets.
‘I know some people might think I’m mad for not doing everything possible to reduce my risk,’ says Marie, 54, a PR consultant, who lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with husband Paddy, 56, a decorator, and has three grown-up children.
‘But my menopause
A gender clinic in Texas dubbed ‘Frankenstein’s lab’ has performed hundreds of unconventional genital surgeries that many experts describe as ‘dangerous.’
The Crane Center for Transgender Surgery in Austin bills itself as a world leader in operations for non-binary people – those who don’t identify exclusively with one gender.
The surgeries include giving patients a penis and vagina, or completely removing their sex organs, essentially ‘Barbie-dolling your genitals,’ as one critic put it.
The center director, Dr Curtis Crane, has
A month after succeeding to the throne aged 47 in 2005, Albert was in for a shock as one of his closely kept secrets was about to be revealed to the world.
For few knew, the prince had enjoyed a secret six-year relationship with a glamorous ex-Air France attendant who had also given birth to his son around 18 months earlier, in 2003.
The relationship between Nicole Coste and the Prince began following a chance encounter on a flight from
In seinem neuesten Buch wirbt der produktive britische Psychoanalytiker Adam Phillips für Neugier, Improvisation und Konflikte als Gegenmittel gegen die betäubende Wirkung absoluter Gewissheit.
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Sales of gift cards are set to rise this Christmas as many opt for a voucher as an easy present that is seen as more thoughtful than cold hard cash.
Britons bought £1.35billion worth of gift cards between January and June this year according to the Gift Card and Voucher Association, up 8.4 per cent on the same period in 2022.
That is set to ramp between July and December due to the festive rush – and post delivery delays
A debut author who admitted to creating fake profiles to ‘one star bomb’ non-white writers has been dropped by her publisher as it’s been revealed she feared ‘being cancelled’ after her book came out.
LA-based Cait Corrain was set to release Crown of Starlight – a ‘steamy, sci-fi reimagining’ of the Greek myth of Ariadne and Dionysus – in May 2024.
But her publisher US publisher Del Rey has now officially dropped her.
The imprint of Penguin Random House, stated
It rained all morning and it rained all afternoon and it rained all evening in Istanbul. But it did not rain enough to douse the fires of Hell. Manchester United endured the tortures of the old Ali Sami Yen stadium 30 years ago and last night they suffered the agonies of the damned in the new one.
United played some wonderful football and scored three superb goals in a stadium notorious for its intimidating atmosphere but two dreadful mistakes by
Celebrities welcoming babies in their 50s are giving women false hope over their own chances of conceiving later in life, experts warned today.
TV host Victoria Coren Mitchell this week revealed she had given birth to daughter June Violet at the age of 51 after keeping her pregnancy a secret.
Her delivery followed that of supermodel Naomi Campbell, 53, who welcomed her second child in June and told fans ‘it’s never too late’ to become a mother.
But fertility specialists
The Passport Office is still giving out incorrect information about the validity of children’s passports when travelling to the Eorpean Union, it has been revealed.
That is despite it being 32 months since the rules changed post-Brexit. It means expensive family holidays abroad are being potentially put at risk.
One family told the Independent they were on the brink of cancelling a £5,000 holiday after being assured, repeatedly, their nine-year-old’s passport had expired. However, after finding out this was incorrect,
Taylor Swift, 33, made a new “generous” act of kindness with an “incredible” donation to a Seattle food bank charity.
The megastar made the donation to Food Lifetime while she was in the city for her Eras Tour dates at Lumen Field, last month.
On Wednesday July 26, Food Line shared on Instagram an emotional message for the singer, whose donation will help “thousands of families,” across the Western Washington region.
Alongside a montage of photos of the Love Story
