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Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness Day: Why we need to know about this breast...
The 13th October is Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness Day, a day dedicated to spreading the word about the incurable side of the disease, the side where there are no survivors
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The HPV vaccine: Preventing cervical cancer in the developing world
In a recent issue of the medical journal The Lancet, Professor Henry Kitchener, Emma Crosbie and colleagues publish a feature piece on Human papillomavirus and cervical cancer. Human papillomavirus...
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Living with Rett Syndrome: Walking in someone else’s shoes
In a few days’ time, I will be playing at single parenting for approximately 89 hours. It’s a daunting prospect in many ways, not least because I am increasingly unable to carry the six-year-old up or...
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Living with Rett Syndrome: Trying to face some inevitable truths
I like to think that I am generally a realistic, feet-on-the-ground, faces-the truth kind of a person. Since the initial shock of diagnosis wore off, I have imagined that I am facing the reality of my...
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World Aids Day 2013: No time for complacency
Sitting in conversation with Professor Sharon Lewin in Bangkok, it is difficult not to be stunned into silence by her encyclopaedic knowledge of HIV. Lewin is a basic scientist, physician and head of...
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Secondary breast cancer: Treatment Roller Coaster – Part one
It’s been two long months since I have last written and even longer since I have filled you in on how my treatment is going.
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Living with Rett Syndrome: Playing Mary – Part 2
Well, I was right. Mostly right. As predicted, today was messy. Hannah played Mary, ‘Purple’ class played green aliens, 80 other immensely special (in the ‘unique’ and ‘brilliant’ sense of the word)...
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Secondary Breast Cancer: Treatment Roller Coaster – Part three
Welcome to part three of the ‘Ismena treatment catch up’. I arrive at the Royal Marsden with a smile on my face ready for round three of chemotherapy.
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Rett Syndrome and me: White picket fences
When you're young, I think you think that by the time you're, say, 36, you'll have it all figured out: love, family, money, career, that important fundamental kind of stuff. Not necessarily all...
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Secondary breast cancer: The sink hole in the road
It’s fair to say, I’ve had a number of speed bumps in the road of life recently and to be honest I’m a bit bored of them!
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Wheels: Journeys through Paralympic Sport
James Moore will chronicle his experiences in wheelchair basketball, highlight any events of note (world/UK championships and the like), and cover some of the big issues facing disability sports
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Why Madame LA LA will change the way you look at fake tan
Nicole Dash Jones, a British-born beauty entrepreneur whose new Madame LA LA range promises something different to most other self-tan products on the market. It's not that its inherent biscuit smell...
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