Health notebook

Menopause happens to every woman, but with 34 confirmed symptoms, not everyone experiences it the same way – and what you eat can play a part in that. Get the lowdown on the foods that will help manage symptoms, and then try some health-boosting recipes

“If you’re travelling somewhere English isn’t widely spoken, translate your medical conditions into the local language before you go,” advises Deborah Grayson, pharmacist and nutritional therapist at

YOUR AIRPORT HEALTH QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Three decades since a Canadian endocrinologist popularised a word for the transitional period between the onset of symptoms and your final period, the term has infiltrated the menopause conversation. But the facts remain as foggy as a frontal lobe deprived of oestrogen. As Perimenopause Awareness Month collides with the return to school, consider this a lesson in how to navigate this life stage

Most women have suffered the misery of bladder infection (cystitis) – burning pain on passing urine, needing to rush to the loo frequently, low tummy pain, sometimes even blood in the urine. Men do ge

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS) is a condition that affects the brain and spinal cord. Over 150,000 people in the UK live with the condition. In MS, the myelin coating protecting the nerves is damaged. This d