When Nathan Brosnan went missing his family was plunged into the agony of ‘not knowing’. A national DNA program is trying to give families like theirs answersGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastIn a life punctuated by cycles of chaos, there was always one thing 35-year-old Nathan Brosnan kept constant. “It didn’t matter if he was having a mental health...
From genes to environment to personality, we are all manipulated by forces seemingly outside our control. But there are ways to get back in the driving seatDo you ever feel as though you’re not in control of your thoughts and actions? Perhaps you become irrational when you’re tired or have skipped lunch. Pour yourself a drink when you swore you wouldn’t. If so, you are certainly not alone....
People prefer to keep busy rather than to enjoy a moment of reflection, researchers findLosing oneself in one’s thoughts or letting the mind wander is an underrated activity that is more rewarding the more it is practised, an academic study has claimed.Psychologists who studied a group of more than 250 people encouraged to engage in directionless contemplation or free-floating thinking said that...
Groups across political spectrum call for outbreak of virus to be treated as public health emergencyLGBTQ+ groups from across the political spectrum have joined forces to demand the government increase efforts to combat monkeypox or risk it becoming endemic in the UK.There have been more than 2,600 cases of monkeypox in the UK so far, which in the majority of the cases affects gay and bisexual men...
People with highest levels of prostasin twice as likely to have diabetes and 43% more likely to die from cancerDoctors have identified a protein in the blood they believe could serve as an early warning sign for patients who are at risk of diabetes and death from cancer.Researchers in Sweden and China analysed two decades of health records from more than 4,500 middle-aged adults on the Malmö diet...