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Health & wellbeing
Symptoms, sleep, stress and the checks worth knowing about, explained with the evidence behind them.
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Health & wellbeing
How much sleep do women need? The official answer, and why it is harder to get
Adults need at least 7 hours of sleep. Women get about as much as men, but report far more trouble falling and staying asleep. Here are the figures and what helps.
Health & wellbeing
Heart attack symptoms in women: the full list, and why they are missed
Chest pain is still the most common heart attack symptom in women, but many women also have shortness of breath, nausea, back or jaw pain. What to watch for and what to do.
Health & wellbeing
Signs of burnout: what the WHO definition says, and what the numbers show
Burnout has an official definition with three parts. Here is how to recognise each one, how common it is among working women, and when to get help.