Great piece of research announced by a recent science news digest available on the British Science Association website. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have deactivated the extra chromosome that causes Down’s syndrome, according to The Independent. The scientists took cells from people with the syndrome and silenced the chromosome, raising the prospect of future…
Note to self: Do not place make-up bag directly above toilet!
…On the plus
side it’s been a great excuse to refresh the contents, I was living on borrowed
time as much of my make-up was hanging round from my pre-mummy life anyway.
Where do I start though? My requirements are so different now to 3 years ago. Lipstick is really a thing of the past and what happened whilst I was…
At the beginning of July I was lucky enough to talk to Paediatric Nurse and Health Visitor Katherine Whitby…
Katherine, thanks for taking the time to talk to us at London Mum’s Magazine. It’s great to get a real glimpse into the world of a Paediatric Nurse and Health Visitor.
· Having children is such an emotional
rollercoaster and certainly…
As the schools break up, it’s natural that many parents of children in the mid-to-late teens will be preoccupied with what their son or daughter is going to do when they finish school for the last time. With economic uncertainty continuing and rising youth unemployment, there’s a lot of pressure on both parents and young people to make the right decision.
It’s worrying then, that AAT…
Do you find yourself always putting things off? Meaning to get down to certain tasks, and then finding that a week, a month, or even a year has passed and you still haven’t started them? How does that make you feel? – irritated? guilty? a failure?
Let’s just say you desperately want to get a new job.
(You desperately wanted to get a new job at the beginning of 2012 as well…
Gok Wan is an expert on what to wear to flatter different body shapes but, when it comes to faces, he also knows how important it is to select specs that complement your best features and reflect your personality. In his role as Specsavers’ style advisor he gives us here top tips on how to choose glasses for specific face shapes.
The eyes are the window to the soul, so don’t be eternally…
Starting a business is an exciting adventure; however getting your start-up off the ground is also one of the hardest things to do. One of the biggest issues is often a lack of money, at least at the beginning. The web and ecommerce have been great enablers in this respect, and there are plenty of low cost ways to get your business moving forward. If you love what you do, and spend your money…
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) recently launched an ‘Underwear Rule’ campaign to help parents protect their children from sexual abuse.
It comes as a new online YouGov poll shows half the parents of 5-17-year-olds who took part in the survey have never spoken to their sons or daughters about the issue.
And of those who have more than two in five (43%)…
The average British woman owns over 100 items of clothing but research shows women admit to having 10 items of clothing they have never actually worn. We are a nation obsessed with the latest trends; we spend £63.7 billion pounds on clothes collectively each year, so it should be no surprise that the average woman owns over 100 items of clothing.
However, despite the bulging wardrobes and…
We kind of knew that exercise is good at various levels to help cope with stress. But here is an interesting report being divulged by the British Science Association Science News Digest this July.
A mechanism has been discovered by researchers at Princeton University that explains why exercise can reduce stress levels. The study found that regularly exercised mice responded to a stressful…