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Resolve key to success

YOU’RE never too old to commit to get fit, and a new year offers us a fresh chance to go for the good health we’d like.Read

Spend every second wisely

IMAGINE if there was a bank which credited your account each morning with £86,400.Read

Resolve key to health success

MADE a pledge to feel great in 2008? PAULINE HOLT finds out how to stick to your New Year health resolutions from the people who know . . .Read

Cast off your chains

ANYTHING is possible . . . very often the only person to place limits on our success is ourselves.Read

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and lightbox treatments

FEELING unaccountably down now the dark days of winter are approaching? You may be a victim of SAD, as PAULINE HOLT reports . . .Read

Put a nail in your coughing

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Disabled workers caught in a catch 22 situation

SUNDERLAND UNIVERSITY graduate Joe Ayton has found himself in a Catch 22 situation since completing his degree in film and media this January.Read

Throat ache a sore point

Angela Chalmers, Boots' pharmacist from the Eldon Square store, answers your health queries, this is 'sore throats'Read

Wrap up to beat the cold

IF there’s one topic apart from the weather that preoccupies the British during the winter it’s the common cold.Read

Holding back the years

WHILE spending on cosmetic surgery soars PAULINE HOLT looks at a new book aiming to help us grow old gracefully.Read

Ask the pharmacist: Head lice

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Thank you and goodbye

TODAY’s On the Couch is the last one as I move on to pastures new. Over the past 18 months I have been very touched to read some of the struggles our readers encounter in life.Read

Caught in web of fear

DEAR NICKY — I feel so stupid even writing this but I have a problem that is starting to ruin my life.Read

Ask the pharmacist

Dry eye occurs when tears rapidly evaporate, leaving eyes feeling sore and gritty. It often becomes more common with age and among women going through the menopause.Read

Bothered by belly piercing plea

DEAR NICKY — My 14-year-old daughter and myself are at loggerheads because she is intent on having her belly button pierced. She already has her ears pierced twice and is talking about getting them pierced again. Not only do I think it looks horrible, but I’m also worried in case she has problems with it going septic. The thing is, she is really strong-willed and I don’t know what I can do to stop her — VICKYRead

That time of your life

THERE’S one certainty in the life of any female . . . she will go through the menopause and, while some women sail through, others endure a variety of sometimes embarrassing symptoms.Read

Picturing life after cancer

ARTIST and breast cancer survivor Andrea Marrion has unveiled portraits of fellow patients for a groundbreaking exhibition to coincide with Breast Cancer Aware- ness month, reports Pauline Holt.Read

Ask the pharmacist

Manjinder Kaur, Boots' pharmacist from the Newcastle Eldon Square store, answers your health queries - this week the topic is women's hair loss.Read

Public speaking tips from Dear Nicky

DEAR NICKY — I’m in a real state as I’ve put my name in to be a governor at my youngest’s school. I feel I would be good at it as I know lots of the mams and they all like my ideas. The problem is I’ve got to do a speech to some of the parents and teachers. I’m a nervous wreck thinking of standing up in front of other people. My legs are shaking even thinking about it, but I really want to do this — JULIE, Eaglescliffe, Teesside.Read

Dealing with mouth ulcers

MOUTH ulcers are most commonly caused by biting or grazing your cheek or lip. They are greyish-white in colour with redness around them and are usually very painful, although they tend to last no more than a few days.Read

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