Ten years ago, a car accident changed my life. Nobody was injured but it happened because I was exhausted, preoccupied and juggling a million thoughts at once. Like many women, I was running on empty. In my case, I was raising two children while trying to study for exams and build a career in medicine. … Read more
Does UK need to overhaul its Covid symptom list? Cough, fatigue and headache are most common signs of illness, study claims – but they aren’t all eligible for swab tests ONS report found fewer than half get symptoms before testing positive Cough is the most common, but fever and anosmia further down the list Headache … Read more
Most of us operate at 50 per cent of our mental capacity. It’s like having a high-performance Ferrari and just using it to nip to the shops once in a while. Having spent the past 25 years practising as a neurosurgeon, there is not much I don’t know about the workings of the brain, and … Read more
A teacher has wept after admitting causing the death of a 14-year old schoolboy in a freak road accident when she lost control of her BMW during a bout of ‘tiredness’ due to a vitamin deficiency. Caroline Eadsforth, 43, was driving to work when she took a right hand turn too widely and ploughed into … Read more
The trip had been months in the planning. A ten-day tour of Washington, Atlantic City and New York seemed the perfect way for Anthony Cottrell and his wife, Ellen, to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. But as the couple toured the U.S. capital city, Anthony, then 48, found himself feeling increasingly tired. ‘I just couldn’t … Read more