On his first public-facing engagement since his cancer diagnosis, King Charles visited patients at University College hospital’s Macmillan Cancer Centre in London, aiming to highlight the importance of early diagnosis. In February it was announced that the king had been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer, for which he is still receiving treatment....

Charles spoke about need for early diagnosis during a visit to University College hospital in LondonKing Charles told patients that he was well during a visit to a London cancer treatment centre where he also spoke of the “shock” of receiving a cancer diagnosis.On his first public-facing engagement since his diagnosis, he and the queen met cancer specialists...

What ministers herald as key reform is in fact unworkable. The plans would be laughable if they weren’t so harmfulThere is a scene in The Simpsons in which the villainous Mr Burns enlists a team of monkeys to reproduce a Charles Dickens novel on the cheap. Hunched over a row of typewriters, the simians cannot get the job done without a range of bumbling...

Many practitioners consider CBT the gold standard of therapy, but does it work for everyone? The first time I learned about cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), I felt the pleasure of recognition and of superiority. I was in high school, and it would be years before I visited a therapist of any kind, but from what I gathered online, CBT consisted of...

Having turned my back on the partying, hangovers and self-destruction, I’ve slowly worked out what was behind them – and how to replace them with something better The first alcoholic drink I had was a lemon Hooch in a gay club called the Palm Beach in south London in 1991. For the first time in my life the anxiety and self-consciousness I thought was...

Virus has already killed other mammals including sea lions and seals, while also taking toll on farm animalsThe first case of a walrus dying from bird flu has been detected on one of Norway’s Arctic islands, a researcher has said.The walrus was found last year on Hopen island in the Svalbard archipelago, Christian Lydersen, of the Norwegian Polar Institute,...