Girl born with heart outside her body survives surgery in UK first
Ectopiacordisis thought to affect 5 to 8 children in every million and chances of survival are less than 10 per cent. A baby that needed surgery within an hour of...
Health and Spiritual
Mindfulness boosts student mental health during exams, study finds
Mindfulness training helps build resilience in university students and improve their mental health, particularly during stressful periods of exams, according to research from the University of Cambridge. The study, which...
Is watching sport as good as playing it?
I haven’t been to the gym for two weeks, but it’s fine: I just need to watch sport on television. A study from the University of Montreal has found that...
‘We help them flourish and bloom’: using naturetoimprove physical and mental healthof teens
In a corner of south London, a group of young people are taking it in turns to smell the leaves of a rose geranium plant in the gardens of Roots...
Beauty on your windowsill
For a dramatic display, choose plants that contrast with the background — bright plants against light siding or wood, pale flowers against dark brick walls. Here’s a brief rundown of...
John Locke: The Man Who So Impressively Embodied the English Spirit
His celebrated essay, available to its first readers in December 1689, though formally dated 1690, is still of great interest today. It is an examination of the nature of the...
Sir Thomas Browne: “Urn Burial”-an Essay on the Nature of Identity and Humanity’s Quest for immortality
Sir Thomas Browne is a writer whose afterlife vindicates the power of an enchanted, idiosyncratic, and – the gift that holds one key to the success of the writing life...
Mental Health.It’s in the mind and the body, too
Something is stirring in the world of mental health and for once the news is positive. This month, British scientists began testing a radically new approach to treating schizophrenia based...
How A Scientist’s Slick Discovery Helped Save Preemies’ Lives
In 1953, Dr. John Clements realized something fundamental about the way the lung functions — an insight that would ultimately save the lives of millions of premature babies. The story...
The War against Air Pollution Has Begun
“You never see ‘air pollution’ written as the cause on death certificates,” an expert once told Damian Carrington, Environment Editor at the Guardian. If it was, she suggested, the enormous...
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