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Valentine

Fretting about Valentine’s Day because you don’t yet have that one, fantastic idea that’ll knock him or her off their feet and make Thursday a memorable day? Worried that if you don’t, your significant other or others (depending on how good you are at multi-tasking) will leave you high and dry with a broken heart on this most important day in the lovebirds calendar? Here are a few do’s and don’ts in regards to make sure this 14th of February is the one you’ll remember on your death bed.

Posted 13/02/08

Green Tea Shown To Prevent Effects of Parkinson's Disease

A recent study into the positive effects of green tea on Parkinson’s disease has given hope to the 120,000 people in the UK suffering from the neurodegenerative condition, for which there is currently no cure.

Posted: 19/12/07

Safe sex in a virtual world

Sexual health campaigner and Salford senior nursing lecturer Barbara Hastings-Asatourian is re-locating to the virtual world in a bid to advise more young people on practising safe sex.

In a ground-breaking move, Barbara, former nurse and managing director of Contraception Education, will be hosting a live seminar on sexual health on Thursday 13 December in the cult social networking site Second Life.

Should ‘Smart’ Drugs Be Legal?

An alarming amount of students are turning to performance enhancing drugs in order to get higher marks at school, college and university.

Psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin – which is used for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – have been proved to directly improve academic attainment.

Posted: 06/06/07 By Charlie Whitworth

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LGBT

Student Tmies and Stonewall have combined forces to bring tou a totally unique supplement for the UK's students, aimed to educate and advise LGBT students.

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Womens Health

Breast cancer is the most common cancer to affect women with more than 34,000 women diagnosed every year in the UK.

Contain The Strain

It's hard to avoid stress in the hectic 21st century but you can do some damage limitation. Our print-out-and-keep guide tells you how.

Although stress starts out as psychological, it actually manifests itself physically. Answer the following questions to find out if you're a sufferer.

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Lightweight. Boring. Nae fun.

One third of Scots feel peer pressured into drinking more than they want, One fifth of Scots would rather lie than admit to not wanting another drink

Lightweight. Boring. Nae fun. These are just some of the comments you might expect if you turn down a drink in the pub. 'So what?' you might say. I only drink to have fun and I don't let anyone tell me what to do. But peer pressure can have a bigger effect on your drinking than you think.

Guide to Safer Sex

One million people are infected with STIs around the world every day of the year. Oral sexually-transmitted gonorrhoea is on the rise in the UK.

Re-Rewind

Some hangovers can turn you into a physical and mental wreck – and sadly there's no magic 'undo' button. Forewarned is forearmed.

.. if only you could. We all know that morning-after feeling, but what about serious downers that you just can't handle? Our guide's here to help you cope.

Posted 22.01.07

Taking Drugs

Taking drugs is a gamble - everybody reacts differently, you can never be sure of how a drug may harm you.

All classified drugs are illegal. The Misuse of Drugs Act categorises drugs as A, B or C. People caught using, selling or giving away Class A or B drugs face severe penalties from a criminal record to life imprisonment.

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Posted 22.01.07

Coming out

Telling someone about your sexuality is something that 'straight' people never have to go through

For lesbian and gay men, it can be one of the hardest decisions they'll make.

hit the spot

OK, we all know the ultimate erogenous zone in a man, but there are a lot more that often get ignored. We did some research to find out which areas send a fella into overdrive. Here's the top ten.