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5 benefits of giving up alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 benefits of giving up alcohol

...out more about #GoSober for October, head over to Macmillan Cancer Support's website and see what you can do to support this event - https://www.gosober.org.uk References Benefits of giving up alcohol for a month The average price of wine (Office for National Statistics) Consumption: Adult drinking in the UK Units and calories in wine The effects of alcohol on the body...
From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common
Health, Sports & Psychology

From ‘refrigerator mothers’ to paracetamol: why harmful autism myths are so common

...adults.[The Conversation] Authors Lindsay O'Dell, Professor of critical developmental psychology, The Open University; Charlotte Brownlow, Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland, and Sandra Thom-Jones, Honorary Professor, University of Wollongong This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative...
Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?
Society, Politics & Law

Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?

...care for trans lives. The Zoolander trailer is a case in point: as of this morning over 12,000 people have signed a petition calling for a boycott. If Brewdog wanted to make a drink for trans people they wouldn’t make it their most expensive drink (£5.20 for a pint of No Label), when we are so much more likely than the average person to be unemployed, or scraping by on...
Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...cares about academic work and labour. While a number of the theoretically denser chapters will elude some, as a collection The Digital Academic offers a sufficient range to engage a wide variety of readers. This is important since one of the barriers to broader uptake of research of this nature has been its impermeability to academics working outside the arts and social...
Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?

...care-giving responsibilities. This is another example where gender-focused strategies need to be developed to lessen the toll of heart disease on women. Helping women take control Improving outcomes from heart disease in women will need a change not only in health professionals’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, but most importantly among women themselves. The first...
Pharmacotherapy while ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pharmacotherapy while ageing

...Care qualifications. In addition to that, we may already know that as we grow older, we are at higher risk of having multiple long-term health conditions, which we call polymorbidity. This often leads to the need to take several different medications in one to treat each condition (what we call polypharmacy). With all age-related changes that might be already happening in...
Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...adults of Black African, Caribbean, of Black dual heritage, or from the wider community in or around West Birmingham who are recovering from mental ill health or are at risk of developing mental ill health. https://www.sacmhf.co.uk/ North East Sharing Voices Bradford Sharing Voices Bradford (SVB) aims to reduce mental health and related inequalities through community...
Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...Care courses and qualifications. As part of the Ageing Well series of Public Talks, I am exploring how important it is, over our lifespan, to maintain a well-balanced nutrition and hydration as well as regular physical and social activity in the older age. As we know we start ageing the moment we are born, it demonstrates more significantly when we reach a certain age,...