Healthy parents

Research from the charity Target Ovarian Cancer shows how badly informed women are about ovarian cancer – of women diagnosed with this cancer, more than half didn’t know anything about the disease beforehand. Target Ovarian Cancer have produced some facts and figures to make women more aware.

Flexi-melt™ is a new quick dissolve glucosamine hydrochloride (hcl) supplement which may help relieve some of the symptoms relating to osteoarthritis, joint stress and injury.

If your new year's resolution to give up smoking needs a boost, try QuitKey to reduce your nicotine dependence.

Made from the world's purest lanolin, Lansinoh has been specifically developed for the treatment of sore and cracked nipples in conjunction with help with positioning and attachment while breastfeeding.

While new research shows more than nine out of ten people say eating too much salt can damage your health, a positive sign that events like Salt Awareness Week are working, many of us are not cutting our salt intake and this can lead to serious health conditions, says Graham Macgregor, Chairman of Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine.

From its humble beginnings in 2006 based on the simple idea that putting people together can help with those feelings of helplessness and anguish, Cancer Buddies Network has recently welcomed its 3000th member. Every day a new person joins the website and finds someone with whom they can share their experience.

Juia Bairstow tackles those extra pounds put on over Christmas with Rosemary Conley's Real Results Workout DVD.

Many people will have resolved to give up a habit like smoking or cutting down on alcolhol over the new year. Dr Keith Souter gives some advice on how to make bad habits a thing of the past by modifying your behaviour and treating with homeopathy.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) – a global charity that funds research into finding a cure for type 1 diabetes – has launched an online animation tool enabling people to create an animation which they can then send to a friend who can then carry on the story, like an online animated game of consequences! The new tool is aimed at raising awareness or type 1 diabetes and JDRF.

National Obesity Week, running from 2 to 8 November, is staging a consumer awareness campaign to help people be more aware of the risks associated with being overweight.

Stress and negativity can deplete our energy levels and lead to poor health and many illnesses. Master Sung of the Innersound Foundation explains how your vital energy can be restored with Qi treatments which focus on acupressure points and sound vibration.

Sun protection is vital for adults as well as children and the Simple range of sun sensitive products ticks all the boxes for Anne Coates.

We all experience fatigue and could do with a boost from time to time but do energy drinks really help? Read how Anne Coates  fared when she tried out Focus.

Lesley Lodge's daughter has had CFS/ME  for over four years so she is well placed to review Fighting Fatigue: a practical guide to managing the symptoms of CFS/ME  by Sue Pemberton and Catherine Berry.

Protecting your family in the sun should be a major priority but just using a high protection factor sun cream is not the answer, writes Anne Coates, who gives her top ten tips.

Flips flops – that great standby of the summer season - can cause havoc with foot health. Now there’s a new design to give maximum comfort as well as foot protection. Anne Coates has been putting the Platinum Sandal Sport Flips through their paces.

We should have been teaching our children basic personal hygiene procedures anyway - but with Swine flu we should make sure we all take simple precautions.

Homeopathic coach Sam Adkins explains how and why regular exercise is so good for the seven systems of the body.