Let’s set the scene, so you are at home trying to ether relax or get on with something, but in the background there is the incessant droning of your husband/boy friend/partner, who is moaning continuously about a case of man flu, a swollen ankle, a runny nose etc but outright refuses to visit the doctor read more »

Often it just so happens that a first day of school causes just as much anxiety in the parents as it does in their child. With September just around the corner here are a few tips from ivillage which will help to ease those anxieties. If your child’s fast approaching first day at school is read more »

Every now and then its important to sit back and consider what you would really like to achieve in your career. Working takes up such a large proportion of our time, yet we spend very little time really thinking about what we are doing, if we are enjoying it and how to progress. If you read more »

A recent study has revealed that the effects of praying really can benefit someone who is healing. Researchers from Indiana University in Bloomington conducted an investigation on the powers of spiritual healing practices to heal disease. The study involved investigating two charismatic Christian groups one from Africa and one from South America. The researchers measured read more »

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has recently caused an outrage among women after calling for an international breastfeeding law and has been forced to apologise. Bundchen recently voiced her opinion on breastfeeding on her blog and it was meant with a sticky response. She wrote, “Some people here (in the US) think they don’t have to breast-feed read more »

A recent study has overturned earlier research on working mothers by finding that mothers can go back to work after the birth of their child without putting their wellbeing at stake, reports the Guardian. The new study was led by New York’s Columbia University School of Social Work and was published recently by the Society read more »

Michelle Obama is calling on the congress to pass legislation to improve standards of nutrition in American schools. The suggested bill would allocate $4.5 billion over the course of a decade to support school cafeterias and would also include an overhaul of the standard of food allowed to be sold in schools including that of read more »

According to research the more time teenagers spend outside during long summer evenings the less ready they are to go to sleep, leading to a multitude of side effects. Research shows that teenagers seem to have difficulty adjusting to long summer evenings and lighter mornings, resulting in highly disrupted sleeping patterns which in turn leads read more »

Receiving lots of affection as a young child could help us to better cope with the stresses and strains of adult life, says a recent study. These findings come from a study of almost 500 people, from the US state of Rhode Island, who were studied as children and then again as adults. The study read more »

According to a recent US study, having a good network of friends and neighbours boosts survival chances by around 50%. A team of researchers from Brigham Young University conducted a meta analysis of almost 150 studies which looked at survival odds and social networks. From the results they calculated that having very few friends is read more »