A recent report investigating chronic pain has found that the eight million sufferers in Britain will have to wait an average of six years for a diagnosis and an additional three years before their condition is adequately managed, reports the Telegraph. The survey, which incorporated 2,251 British individuals with chronic pain found that a quarter read more »

Florida based hypnotherapist Tracey Burchard has written an article detailing the waterfall technique which can be used by anyone, anywhere to help relieve stress and promote relaxation. All that’s needed is two minutes and some peace and quiet. If you are feeling excessively stressed for whatever reason (work, children, relationships etc) then here is a read more »

We can more or less assume that summer is officially over and with the clocks soon to go back, constantly gloomy weather and Christmas still three long months away it’s understandable that some of us are feeling a little…unenthused. If your spending the majority of your day at work gazing out of the window and read more »

Recently the media has been awash with reports of weaknesses in the state of the UKs cosmetic surgery industry with the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) finding that many centres were failing to assess and care for patients properly. According to recent surveys almost half of us would like to go read more »

Though sleeplessness and insomnia usually start as isolated problems in their own right, often they can develop into bad habits and continue once the initial cause is long gone. If you are having difficulty sleeping at night and have explored options such as herbal remedies and sleeping aids to no avail then hypnotherapy is an read more »

A recent study conducted in the U.S has found that women suffering with breast cancer which had spread to other parts of the body experienced a significant reduction in their pain when they underwent hypnotherapy. Women like those described above usually experience pain through what is known as a metastatic tumour, which simply means it read more »

Before the smoking ban was imposed in March 2006, Scotland was experiencing a 5 percent per year rise in the number of hospital admissions for asthma attacks in children. Since then there has been an 18 percent reduction in the number of serious childhood asthma attacks. Critics were concerned that the move could force smokers read more »

French and British scientists have recently conducted a study in which they found that those with coronary heart disease and depression are four times more likely to die from heart or circulatory disease than those suffering from either condition alone. The study, which has been published in Heart journal involved tracking the mental and physical read more »

An international team of scientists have predicted that colon cancer cases will increase by 50% within 30 years. Currently Britain has around 23,000 cases but the European Journal of Cancer has predicted this will rise to around 35,000 by the year 2040. One of the key factors in the huge increase is the soaring rates read more »

Research from the Centre for Public Health in Liverpool has highlighted a vulnerable group of long term addicts who first began taking drugs in the 60s and 70s and are now experiencing the physical and mental side effects. Dr Caryl Beynon, from the Centre of Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University, has highlighted the read more »