Emma Saunders, an actress and photographer, went to her father’s private GP in Chelsea with tinnitus in November 2020. ‘I’d woken up with a loud ringing in my ears — it was distressing because I’d not had anything like it before and didn’t know what was going on,’ she says.
‘I went privately because I expected the doctor to have contacts and to refer me to a specialist for tests.’
Instead, the GP prescribed a tranquilliser, lorazepam, telling Emma, then
Now that her lung cancer has progressed to stage 4, Dame Esther Rantzen has questioned whether asbestos in an old BBC building caused her illness.
The former That’s Life! presenter, 83, worked in the broadcaster’s Lime Grove studios for decades, which is one of the facilities were BBC staff were allegedly exposed to the deadly mineral.
Dame Esther was diagnosed with lung cancer in January. Her doctors reportedly determined that smoking was not a potential cause of her illness, but
The news this week that Tupperware is on the brink of collapse left me feeling strangely conflicted.
During my two decades as the editor of Good Housekeeping, the quest for the perfect food storage container was an ever-present fixture in both my home and working life.
I used to keep a test selection under my desk, and could have given you chapter and verse on the benefits of each brand.
But while I felt a nostalgic pang at the thought
The patient sitting in my clinic seemed anxious. In the appointment notes made by the receptionist, it simply said: ‘Personal issue.’
It turned out the mother-of-two, in her early 60s – let’s call her Anne – had made an appointment to see me after noticing an ‘unusual’ burning and itchy feeling, down below.
She used the word ‘unusual’ because, as she explained: ‘I’ve never had any problems, even when I went through the menopause a decade ago.’ I told Anne
