Requires OS X 10-6 or later. Available from the App Store. Free www.breathing-zone.com Breathing Zone Free offers simple guided breathing exercises. This free version for Macs and iPhone is a useful introduction to the health benefits of slower, therapeutic breathing. With the free version, session lengths are limited to five minutes and the target breathing rate cannot be lower than five beats per minute. But try the free version first and then, if you are impressed, buy the full version from the App Store for $3.99 (£2.58). For Android phones, the full version is available for £1.99, but not all features in the iPhone version are available on Android devices. The developers claim that its breathing exercises help reduce stress, improve your mood, make you feel more relaxed and energised, and over time, can help to reduce high blood pressure. The phone’s microphone assesses your breathing and sets a reduced target rate. Set the length of the session and breathe in and out in sync with an image that pulsates at a gradually slower pace. There are no complicated settings and no difficult breathing patterns to master.
The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio PICK OF THE WEEK
COMIC RELIEF – OPERATION HEALTH
Thursday March 12, BBC1, 9-10pm A Comic Relief team led by Lenny Henry, pictured, gives a full makeover to a rural health centre in Uganda. When they turn up they find semi-derelict buildings, with no electricity and no running water, and the centre is infested with vermin. Lenny and his team of celebrities help transform the centre into a fully functioning health clinic. But the real heroes are locals like Francis the doctor, Dorothy the midwife and Gonza the master builder. SUNDAY MARCH 8
Call the Midwife BBC 1, 8-9pm Trixie and Sister Mary Cynthia team up to support a deaf mother-to-be. MONDAY MARCH 9
The Life in My Head: From Stroke to Brain Attack BBC Radio 4, 11-11.30am Journalist Robert McCrum, who survived a severe stroke in 1995, goes through an intensive two-week rehabilitation course to rejuvenate his left side. TUESDAY MARCH 10
Inside Health
Steph Caldwell is a nurse in Manchester
BBC Radio 4, 9.9.30pm Mark Porter aims to demystify some more perplexing health issues.
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Costa Del Casualty: Benidorm ER
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Breathing Zone Free app ★★★★
Channel 5, 8-9pm A man is admitted to the ER with crippling chest pain – has he had a heart attack? And a former cancer patient is experiencing severe back pain and fears that his cancer has returned. WEDNESDAY MARCH 11
Filming My Father: In Life and Death Channel 5, 7-8pm Steve Isaac was a fit 51-year-old father of three when he was diagnosed
with motor neurone disease and given two years to live. This film documents the details of Steve’s condition and the effect it has on his family, resulting in a unique record of the devastating reality of motor neurone disease.
GPs: Behind Closed Doors Channel 5, 8-9pm This week at the Putneymead practice, south London, the staff provide compassionate support to an inspirational young woman who has diabetes as well as depression. Despite some incredibly rough times she is now doing well at university.
24 Hours in A&E Channel 4, 9-10pm A tree surgeon is airlifted to St George’s after falling 40 feet from a tree. He landed head-first on concrete and was knocked unconscious for ten minutes. A taxi driver has come to A&E after lacerating his finger picking up broken glass from the road, and 92-year-old Betty is brought in after her carers found her with slurred speech and a shaking hand. THURSDAY MARCH 12
Comic Relief: Operation Health BBC 1, 9-10pm See Pick of the Week Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
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The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio PICK OF THE WEEK
COMIC RELIEF – OPERATION HEALTH
Thursday March 12, BBC1, 9-10pm A Comic Relief team led by Lenny Henry, pictured, gives a full makeover to a rural health centre in Uganda. When they turn up they find semi-derelict buildings, with no electricity and no running water, and the centre is infested with vermin. Lenny and his team of celebrities help transform the centre into a fully functioning health clinic. But the real heroes are locals like Francis the doctor, Dorothy the midwife and Gonza the master builder. SUNDAY MARCH 8
Call the Midwife BBC 1, 8-9pm Trixie and Sister Mary Cynthia team up to support a deaf mother-to-be. MONDAY MARCH 9
The Life in My Head: From Stroke to Brain Attack BBC Radio 4, 11-11.30am Journalist Robert McCrum, who survived a severe stroke in 1995, goes through an intensive two-week rehabilitation course to rejuvenate his left side. TUESDAY MARCH 10
Inside Health
Steph Caldwell is a nurse in Manchester
BBC Radio 4, 9.9.30pm Mark Porter aims to demystify some more perplexing health issues.
Find more online
Costa Del Casualty: Benidorm ER
Book club discounts
We have teamed up with Jones & Bartlett Learning, Pearson and the Open University Press to offer a 20 per cent discount to readers: journals.rcni.com/ page/ns/offers/book-club
Read reviews online
The Nursing Standard website has an online archive of book reviews: journals.rcni.com/page/ns/resources/ book-reviews
BBC
Breathing Zone Free app ★★★★
Channel 5, 8-9pm A man is admitted to the ER with crippling chest pain – has he had a heart attack? And a former cancer patient is experiencing severe back pain and fears that his cancer has returned. WEDNESDAY MARCH 11
Filming My Father: In Life and Death Channel 5, 7-8pm Steve Isaac was a fit 51-year-old father of three when he was diagnosed
with motor neurone disease and given two years to live. This film documents the details of Steve’s condition and the effect it has on his family, resulting in a unique record of the devastating reality of motor neurone disease.
GPs: Behind Closed Doors Channel 5, 8-9pm This week at the Putneymead practice, south London, the staff provide compassionate support to an inspirational young woman who has diabetes as well as depression. Despite some incredibly rough times she is now doing well at university.
24 Hours in A&E Channel 4, 9-10pm A tree surgeon is airlifted to St George’s after falling 40 feet from a tree. He landed head-first on concrete and was knocked unconscious for ten minutes. A taxi driver has come to A&E after lacerating his finger picking up broken glass from the road, and 92-year-old Betty is brought in after her carers found her with slurred speech and a shaking hand. THURSDAY MARCH 12
Comic Relief: Operation Health BBC 1, 9-10pm See Pick of the Week Compiled by nurse Margaret Paul
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