Conditions & Symptoms
Understanding high blood pressure: what the numbers mean
What a blood pressure reading means, why high blood pressure often has no symptoms, and why one reading is rarely the whole story.
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Health & Lifestyle
Better sleep: understanding the everyday habits that matter
How routines, your bedroom and habits like caffeine and activity can affect sleep, and when sleep problems are worth discussing with a clinician.
Health & Lifestyle
Wearable health technology: how to use it to understand your health
What smartwatches and fitness trackers can and cannot measure, how accurate they are, how to use them sensibly, and three examples at different budgets.
Specialist Perspectives
What is a medical second opinion, and how can you prepare?
What a second opinion is, why people ask for one, and how to prepare your questions and information while keeping your current care team informed.
Family Health
Helping someone you love prepare for a medical appointment
Practical ways to help a relative or friend get ready for a medical appointment, while respecting their choices, their privacy and their right to decide.
Latest health updates
WHO launches a framework to track heat risks for pregnant women, newborns and children
WHO and partners have published indicators to help countries track how extreme heat affects pregnancy and early childhood, and what this means for families.
Sources: World Health Organization, Nature Medicine
Conditions & Symptoms
Plain-language explanations of common symptoms and conditions, to help you understand a health question and talk it through with a clinician. General information cannot assess your own situation, so it is a starting point for that conversation.
Understanding high blood pressure: what the numbers mean
What a blood pressure reading means, why high blood pressure often has no symptoms, and why one reading is rarely the whole story.
Health & Lifestyle
Practical, plain-language information about the everyday habits that are part of looking after your health, from rest and activity to food and mental wellbeing. It is general education, not a personal plan.
Better sleep: understanding the everyday habits that matter
How routines, your bedroom and habits like caffeine and activity can affect sleep, and when sleep problems are worth discussing with a clinician.
Wearable health technology: how to use it to understand your health
What smartwatches and fitness trackers can and cannot measure, how accurate they are, how to use them sensibly, and three examples at different budgets.
Specialist Perspectives
How specialists approach particular conditions, what common tests and investigations are for, and how to prepare for a specialist conversation. It explains specialist thinking; it does not offer a specialist opinion on your situation.
What is a medical second opinion, and how can you prepare?
What a second opinion is, why people ask for one, and how to prepare your questions and information while keeping your current care team informed.
Family Health
Health across the stages of life, and how to support someone you care about while respecting their choices and their privacy. Adults decide who is involved in their own care.
Helping someone you love prepare for a medical appointment
Practical ways to help a relative or friend get ready for a medical appointment, while respecting their choices, their privacy and their right to decide.
Health Updates
Public-health developments and changes in health guidance, explained plainly. Each update shows the date it was accurate, its sources and the countries it applies to.
WHO launches a framework to track heat risks for pregnant women, newborns and children
WHO and partners have published indicators to help countries track how extreme heat affects pregnancy and early childhood, and what this means for families.
Sources: World Health Organization, Nature Medicine
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