How to actually reduce your screen time: 12 simple, realistic tips to stop doomscrolling https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2026/jun/04/how-to-reduce-your-screen-time #Technology #LifeAndStyle #Smartphones #HealthWellbeing
How to actually reduce your screen time: 12 simple, realistic tips to stop doomscrolling

Want to spend less time on your phone? We asked psychotherapists, professors and specialists for practical (and achievable) ways to cut down

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The doctor who mends broken brains: why there is room for hope after a stroke or head injury

The neurologist Orlando Swayne doesn’t suggest everyone can recover. But he does argue that early, targeted and intense therapy can sometimes bring about life-changing improvements – and we have a moral obligation to provide it

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You hunch over a screen all day. Here are six small ways to relax your tight neck and achy back https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2026/jun/02/muscle-pain-relief-products #HealthWellbeing #BackPain #LifeAndStyle #Gadgets #Technology
You hunch over a screen all day. Here are six small ways to relax your tight neck and achy back

Find relief from back pain and muscle tension with picks our contributors love, like slip-on shoes and thick cushions

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The incredible science of the sleeping brain – podcast

Ian Sample talks to Prof Maiken Nedergaard about her groundbreaking work on the brain’s waste-disposal system and how subsequent research is building a picture of sleep as anything but a quiet, inactive state

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Doctors don’t know what to do about wellness influencers but we dismiss them at our peril | Ranjana Srivastava
By Ranjana Srivastava

To be a cancer specialist is to see the worst of harm caused by social media. Yet I have never changed a patient’s mind with outrage

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/02/doctors-opinion-wellness-influencers-social-media

#Health #Cancer #Health #Doctors #Australianews #Healthwellbeing #Socialmedia #Dietsanddieting #RanjanaSrivastava

Doctors don’t know what to do about wellness influencers but we dismiss them at our peril

To be a cancer specialist is to see the worst of harm caused by social media. Yet I have never changed a patient’s mind with outrage

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Doctors don’t know what to do about wellness influencers but we dismiss them at our peril

To be a cancer specialist is to see the worst of harm caused by social media. Yet I have never changed a patient’s mind with outrage

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Envy used to prickle me constantly. But Buddhism teaches us that if someone feels joy, we too can feel it | Jackie Bailey
By Jackie Bailey

If I wish myself happiness, then I might gradually become more positively disposed to the happiness of others

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2026/jun/01/envy-buddhism-when-someone-feels-joy-we-can-feel-it-too

#Healthwellbeing #Buddhism #Mentalhealth #Religion #Friendship #JackieBailey

Envy used to prickle me constantly. But Buddhism teaches us that if someone feels joy, we too can feel it

If I wish myself happiness, then I might gradually become more positively disposed to the happiness of others

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Envy used to prickle me constantly. But Buddhism teaches us that if someone feels joy, we too can feel it | Jackie Bailey https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/commentisfree/2026/jun/01/envy-buddhism-when-someone-feels-joy-we-can-feel-it-too #HealthWellbeing #Buddhism #MentalHealth #Religion #Friendship
Envy used to prickle me constantly. But Buddhism teaches us that if someone feels joy, we too can feel it

If I wish myself happiness, then I might gradually become more positively disposed to the happiness of others

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Poor sleep linked to rising cancer risk in under-50s

Findings add to growing efforts to explain why cancer rates are increasing among younger adults worldwide

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Milking it: inside America’s lactation rooms – in pictures

Some are bright and cosy, others are starkly depressing – these images of rooms used to pump breast milk expose the sometimes grim reality of being a new mum in the US

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