It’s important to know how to set and communicate sexual boundaries, not only to protect yourself from unplanned pregnancy, but also from life-threatening Sexually Transmitted Infections like HIV. While there really isn’t any such thing as “safe sex”, safer sex will reduce these risks considerably. Talking about sex and sexuality gives you the opportunity [...]
A kidney stone is a hard mass developed from crystals that separate from the urine and build up on the inner surfaces of the kidney. If the crystals remain tiny enough, they will travel through the urinary tract and pass out of the body in the urine without being noticed. There are four types [...]
Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain that causes seizures. Some seizures are very mild, with barely any symptoms, while others, like the grand mal seizure, can cause a person to fall, shake, and lose awareness of what is happening around them. It is important to know what to do if someone around you [...]
Hugs feel good, don’t they? Science has shown that the good feeling that comes from receiving and giving hugs is associated with various health benefits. In Greater Good magazine by the University of California Berkeley, neuroscience professor Francis McGlone and behavioural neuroscience reader Susannah Walker from Liverpool John Moores University say touch is a [...]
If you work in the police, the armed forces, as a firefighter or a first responder, you go into it knowing you’ll be dealing with trauma regularly. But, in today’s world, we recognise that trauma can happen in any workplace. The top workplace events that cause trauma, stress and anxiety are considered to be: [...]
If you work a desk job, you may have experienced that feeling when your body tells you it desperately needs a good stretch. More and more, research is suggesting that we aren’t meant to be sitting all day. The American National Institute of Health recently found that a sedentary lifestyle can result in an [...]
Most of us dream. It’s often a topic of conversation and many of us believe that dreams are linked to real-life in some way or other. But are they? What do we know about dreaming…. Dreams occur during the rapid eye movement (REM) phase of sleep. They tend to occur more in the later [...]
