According to recent research, women in high pressure jobs stand double the risk of those in relaxed roles of suffering from a heart attack. Researchers from Harvard Medical school in Boston analysed the records of over 17,400 women in their 50s and 60s, all of whom provided information about their work strains and any job read more »

If you’re feeling a little gloomy today then you are not alone as today is ‘Blue Monday’ which is officially the most miserable day of the year. If you have been suffering a bout of seasonal lows and want to ensure the remainder of your working weeks start with a smile then here are a read more »

According to a recent report, approximately three out of five women and girls have experienced poor mental health. A study conducted by the charity Platform 51, formally YWCA has led to a review of treatment on offer to women who are experiencing low-level poor mental health. Around a quarter of those who were found to read more »

The start of a New Year marks the time when many of us choose to tackle certain problems in our lives. Visiting a counsellor is a fantastic way of helping you through issues which may be making you unhappy and the Guardians Dr Luisa Dillner has come up with a great list of tips to read more »

With reforms in the public health strategy soon to be announced, experts from the Royal College of Psychiatrists have warned that glazing over mental health in the new plans could cost the government millions of pounds in the future. President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor Dinesh Bhugra has said: ”Historically, government public health read more »

In a bid to help parents who are struggling to cope with helping their child through an eating disorder, the charity Care for the Family has launched the UK’s first telephone befriending service. The service offers one to one support from ‘befrienders’ who have had a child suffering with an eating disorder themselves and are read more »

Six Healthy Minds projects across Northern Ireland have been awarded grants totalling £51,840. Two of the services in line to receive a grant include a counselling service for men based in Londonderry and a series of workshops for women in the North Down and Ards area. The Men’s Action Network (Man) will use their grant read more »

Research has revealed that men who have partners with breast cancer stand a high risk of developing a mental health problem. The Danish study from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen looked at the records of more than a million men aged 30 or older who had no history of mental illness and who read more »

New research has suggested that there are a number of children out there, bright, polite and academically sound who outright refuse to go to school and no it is not a clever play on truancy it is a very real and genuine phobia of the classroom. School Phobia is a condition which is currently estimated read more »

Following their 2009 leaflet delivery campaign which reached 80,000 people, the Alzheimer’s Society is sending leaflets and posters to 10,000 GP surgeries throughout the UK and Northern Ireland in a bid to promote early diagnosis. Their previous campaign saw one in five of those who requested further information receive a dementia diagnosis and with experts read more »