BARNEY CALMAN: It s best if I just come clean: for the past year, I ve been hooked on vaping. Specifically, those neon-coloured disposable ones called things like Elf Bar which appeal to children.
BARNEY CALMAN: Is the menopause so horrific that it drives some women to take their own lives? It s an alarming claim, often stated as fact, recently, by menopause guru Dr Louise Newson (pictured).
A week before Christmas, I got a message from my dad on WhatsApp (it took a pandemic, but he has finally got his head around using it) which started, as many of his messages do, with a ramble about the post not arriving and the garden fence falling down.
And then, at the end, he dropped in: ‘Also, I’ve had to be admitted to hospital following a totally unexpected collapse/fit in the early hours of today.
‘Scans not very comforting. Will update as and when I can.’
Mail on Sunday Health Editor Barney Calman, pictured, said he received a WhatsApp message from his father to tell him he had collapsed and was in hospital