Allie Anderson

Joint replacement surgery is very common in the UK. More than 252,000 joint replacements were performed in 2018 - around 10,000 more than in the previous year. So how do people recover from these operations? And just how important is physiotherapy?

We've all been there: you leave the supermarket after doing your weekly shop and take a minute or two to remember where you parked the car. Or you go over the same passage of a book several times, yet absorb nothing of what you've read. These momentary lapses in memory or concentration are normal for most people. We all get a little bit hazy of mind when we're tired, overwhelmed or stressed. When experienced now and then, these instances aren't quite considered to constitute brain fog.

As the global coronavirus pandemic takes hold, the UK government has taken more stringent measures to keep the most vulnerable people in society safe and protected. Now that leaving the house is restricted to few, very specific reasons, you should maintain social distancing if you do come into contact with other people.

As winter approaches, you might be tempted to fill your bathroom cabinet with pills and potions to treat the family’s coughs and colds. But according to a new study – as well as centuries of tradition and anecdotal evidence – you may be better off heading to the kitchen and reaching for a jar of honey.

'You are what you eat', as the saying goes. But just how much does what we eat impact the body's ability to fight off infection and keep us healthy - and can certain foods really boost our immune systems?