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Editorial - Sarah Stacey's Health Notes

Sarah's Health Notes: The Trouble With Gel Nails

Sarah's Health Notes: The Trouble With Gel Nails

Yes, they look pretty perfect. Yes, they last for weeks. But - there’s quite a big but with gel nails. Some consumers have experienced problems with nails and nail bed over months and it now emerges t...

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Sarah’s Health Notes: Pill-free social prescriptions from the NHS

Sarah’s Health Notes: Pill-free social prescriptions from the NHS

Pharmaceutical drugs can do good – in some cases they are true lifesavers. But they can also cause harm. The Government’s National Overprescribing Review, launched in September 2021, estimated that at...

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Sarah's Health Notes: Macmillan Talking Cancer Podcasts

Sarah's Health Notes: Macmillan Talking Cancer Podcasts

I’m sitting in my office down the bottom of our garden in Dorset, looking out at the birds flitting around – a blue tit is sitting on top of a tall shrub like the king of the castle – watching my husb...

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Thoughts On My Brother’s Last Illness

Thoughts On My Brother’s Last Illness

When the father of a dear friend died some years back, we talked about the words we use – ‘death’, ‘dying’, ‘passing on’ and so on – and how they made us feel. Which was at best passive, but more a se...

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