A Californian woman divorced her husband last month because he played computer
games at night and slept during the day; another faced jail after stabbing
and beating her husband because of his snoring. Both examples are
tragic-comic glimpses into a serious but rarely discussed minefield for
couples: sleep incompatibility.
Research by the Sleep Council has found that half of us [...]
The laddish culture promoted by mens magazines has spawned a new medical
condition: athletica nervosa, or an obsession with exercise.
New research shows that the magazines, whose titillating displays of female
flesh were meant to liberate their readers from political correctness, may
be trapping them into an unhealthy obsession with their own bodies.
Some readers become so anxious about their [...]
Donahue, after all, has a stake in Brandon’s health.
The New Lenox elementary school teacher gave him one of her kidneys in 2006 after she learned he suffered from polycystic kidney disease and needed the organ to avoid dialysis.
Donahue, now 27, was in her first year of teaching when she learned her 4th-grade pupil had [...]
“I went out with one guy who said I seemed really great, but he liked bread too much to date me,” said James, 41, a writer in Seattle who cannot eat gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. Sharing meals has always been an important courtship ritual and a metaphor for love. [...]
A survey of Melbourne women presented at an international mental health conference has concluded that females who suffer from mild to moderate depression have a third more sexual activity than those who are not.
They also had more sexually liberated attitudes, a bigger variety of sexual experiences and, if single, were more likely to partake in [...]
New data collected by NSW researchers has given the clearest picture yet of the number of women who get persistent feelings of sadness and worthlessness in the weeks or months after giving birth.
A team from the University of Newcastle enlisted 2,500 women aged between 28 and 33 who had given birth in the past four [...]
Research presented at an international mental health conference in Melbourne showed that about 40 per cent of women get PMS, typically mood swings, irritability, stomach bloating and sore breasts in the two weeks prior to getting a period.
Physical symptoms were more prevalent than emotional symptoms, but the latter were more bothersome for women, according to [...]
She has posted a sign outside her mansion threatening the press with legal action for trespassing, reports say.
The 40-year-old former model placed a sign outside her Peans Wood Mansion in Robertsbridge, East Sussex that read Private - legal action maybe taken against unauthorised persons found on this property., Britains Telegraph reported.
Mills had already called the [...]
Few people have emerged unscathed in a strongly worded inquiry into the management of conflicts of interest at Hawkes Bay District Health Board, but a furious war of words is set to continue for some time yet.
The long-awaited independent review of events at the Hawkes Bay board released yesterday painted a picture of dysfunctional relationships [...]
A kiss, it turns out, is definitely not always just a kiss. Research is finally warming up to that most basic of all human expressions of love %26ndash; the smooch. %26#34;You’d think there would be a lot of research on kissing behaviour. It’s [...]
