Members of the PWT team tried out three lip balms: Herpatch prevention stick, Stop Cracking Up and purepotions Lavender Rescue Salve. Here are their thoughts.
NatraSan First Aid Spray, brand new to the market, is a revolutionary healthcare spray, essential for every household cupboard. Anne Coates took it on their family holiday and it proved very useful.
National Smile Month begins today with three key messages: brush for two minutes twice a day with a fluoride toothpaste, cut down on how often we eat sugary foods and drinks and visit the dentist regularly. Plus there are over 1500 oral health events taking place throughout the country.
Organised by Allergy UK, 20 to 26 April is Allergy Awareness Week. Anne Coates highlights a few products her family have used and endorse: Hopes Relief, Bio-Kult and Aquaint.
At Parenting Without Tears we're often sent samples of health products to try out. Our reactions obvioulsy aren't based on scentific reseach but we can give an opinion. Currently We have tried or are taking: POM Wonderful 100% pomegranate juice, Bio-Kult Infantis and Advanced multi-strain formula and Seven Seas Perfect Woman 7. Here's Anne Coates' thoughts.
Vikings and Hunger Games star, Alexander Ludwig, has teamed up with Orchid Male Cancer Charity launches a new campaign to encourage fathers to "talk balls" with their sons.
Especially for World Cancer Day, Dr Sally Norton, founder of Vavista, has put together some facts on breast cancer based on the questions she is frequently asked.
Following the 2012 Which? Breakfast Cereal Report which revealed worryingly high amounts of free sugars in 50 breakfast cereals, three years on, a new survey by Action on Sugar has surveyed the same 50 products and revealed that cereal manufacturers have made little attempt in tackling the issue – shockingly, certain products even contain more sugars than they did in 2012.
A new meditation app has been launched by Anamaya, owner of the world-renowned London-based health and wellbeing centre. The eponymously named App is based upon clinical work carried out at the centre. Anne Coates has tried it out
On World Diabetes Day the theme is Helathy Living and Diabetes and you can calculate your own risk with a simple questionnaire and make some lifestyle changes.
Apparently parents are still embarrassed when their children get head lice but there is no reason to be. Outbreaks occur in all schools and nurseries. The important thing is to treat the whole family and to be vigilant, writes Anne Coates.
