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A couple have welcomed triplets into the world after four heartbreaking miscarriages and £11,300 ($19,890) on IVF. Leonie Fitzgerald, from Brisbane, became a mother to three ‘perfect’ girls at the age of 44, after giving up hope of having a family when she suffered four miscarriages, caused by low progesterone levels. But Leonie and her … Read more
Shocking moment middle-aged woman is slammed to the ground by police during clash with anti-lockdown demonstrators in Trafalgar square – as Sadiq Khan is branded a hypocrite for blasting ‘unacceptable’ protest after he backed BLM march A woman was slammed to the ground by police during the anti-lockdown protest Footage shows her grappling with officers … Read more
The British Army’s senior ranks are ‘full of middle-aged white guys but they’re not all toffs’, says top commander who also believes the military ‘should do a lot better’ at tackling racism Lieutenant General Tyrone Urch has said the top brass are ‘not all toffs’ However, he added that the army ‘should be doing a … Read more
Children may suffer long-term mental health, social and educational problems because of a decision to shut schools to protect old people, a top scientist warns. Professor Russell Viner, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and a member of government advisory group SAGE, said youngsters’ lives had been ‘put on hold’ to … Read more
Middle-aged people are suffering almost 20 per cent more stress than they were two decades ago, researchers have discovered. The root of the problem lies in the ‘generational squeeze’ of having dependent parents on one side and grown-up children struggling to start a career on the other. This adds up to the equivalent of an extra … Read more
Middle-aged people have a dramatically higher risk of needing hospital care or dying from COVID-19 than the young, a study suggests. An analysis of more than 70,000 cases of COVID-19, mostly in China, estimated that four per cent of those in their forties will be hospitalised. The figure doubles to eight per cent for patients … Read more
Middle-aged shift workers who don’t go to bed at the same time every night are twice as likely to develop heart disease, study warns Shift workers aged 45+ without regular bedtime ‘more likely to get heart disease’ Research shows people with the most irregular sleep duration doubled their risk Almost 2,000 men and women were … Read more
This hi-fi Dac disguised as a hip-flask is the perfect gift for the impossible-to-buy-for middle-aged man in your life By Rob Waugh Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 8 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 8 February 2020 iFi hip-dac headphone amplifier £149, ifi-audio.com Like most middle-aged men, I’m impossible to buy … Read more
When it comes to mental health, there’s a group of people we are systematically letting down. No, not ethnic minorities, gay people or women, but middle-aged men. Doctors, campaigners and politicians all ignore them and as a result many are living in misery, blighted by mental illness that goes unnoticed and untreated. It’s a myth … Read more