We spend half our lives sitting down – and studies show it increases our risk of dying from practically any disease you can think of. But there is something we can do about it – we can simply stand up. Research in the British Journal of Sports Medicine shows that reducing sitting time increases the

Last week, reports suggested that teenagers diagnosed with "growing pains" may, in fact, develop osteoarthritis. This was based on a Danish survey of 3,000 adolescents published in BMC Pediatrics. Teenagers with knee pain were most at risk without treatment, though physiotherapy exercises can help.

If you’ve watched a parent or grandparent go through the unforgiving torment of dementia, or visited relatives in a care home where other residents have the disease, you may associate it mainly with the frail and elderly. But new figures show early onset dementia affects far more people in the UK

Two out of five mothers feel they are discharged from hospital too soon after giving birth, according to a survey that raises fresh concern about NHS postnatal care. Research undertaken by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the Netmums website found that 40% of new mothers felt they were sent

Sleep is good. We all need sleep. It is very rare to hear someone complain about getting too much of the stuff (unless they are diabetic). As the parent of a toddler who has thus far failed to grasp the concept of staying in bed past 6am, I am regularly bemoaning the shortfall of shut-eye in my