The clinic where cricket star Ben Stokes had his hair transplant is offering the world’s most expensive procedure, costing £100,000.
The fee includes surgery and accommodation in a five-star hotel.
The Wimpole Clinic on Harley Street, central London, whose clients include footballer Rob Holdings, says its service is designed for the “ultra-high net worth individuals” who want “super dense hair”.
The clinic says the procedure, called Follicular Unit Extraction, is carried out under local anaesthetic and has a success rate of over 97%. Hair transplants typically cost between £1,000 and £30,000, according to the NHS.
The clinic where cricket star Ben Stokes had his hair transplant offers the world’s most expensive hair transplant procedure, costing £100,000.
Men with depression on the rise
Therapists are reporting a sharp rise in the number of men seeking treatment for depression.
A survey by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) found that more than half of its members said they had seen an increase in men experiencing mental health problems in the past year.
Experts say men often don’t show the same symptoms as women, making it harder to spot: Depressed women are often marked by sadness, while men tend to show symptoms like anger, isolation and substance abuse.
“In working with men over the past year, we’ve seen a steady increase in the number of men suffering from depression,” BACP therapist Anthony Davis said. “We need to help men understand and recognise the symptoms.”
Research has shown that agricultural workers are six times more likely to die in a workplace accident than the average British person. There were 22 work-related fatalities in the agriculture industry between 2021 and 2022, according to insurer William Russell. The company said the leading cause of workplace fatalities was falls from height, with 29 deaths, followed by being hit by a car. Both of these can lead to concussion and internal organ damage, the most common fatal injuries.
Women who receive a false positive breast screening test are more likely to develop breast cancer: in mammograms offered to all women aged 50-70 in the UK, around three in 100 will receive a false positive – meaning they are called back for further testing and found to have no signs of breast cancer.
But a study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute found that women who receive a false-positive result are 60 percent more likely to develop breast cancer over the next 20 years. Experts say this is because false positives can occur when doctors mistake non-cancerous tissue growths, known as benign breast disease, for cancer. Studies have shown that women who have had this condition are more likely to develop cancer.
