If hanging on to old resentments is bad for your health, what's the solution? Nothing in the lexicon of popular psychology triggers my inbuilt wince response quite so powerfully as the word "forgiveness". Apart from sheer cheesiness – it's hardly unique in that respect, sadly – there are several problems with the way self-help pontificators are always advising us to forgive. First, it seems like a concept best reserved for those who've undergone real trauma; I bridle, for example, at the "forgiveness guru" Colin Tipping's insistence that we all need to forgive our parents, apparently even if they were good parents – as if not resenting them sufficiently were some kind of failing.

People get better control of their blood pressure if they monitor it themselves and adjust their treatment accordingly. So says a new study, which used an online blood pressure testing device to allow people to send readings to their doctors and change their medicine if treatment wasn't working.

Lindsey Davies says minimum health standards should be imposed if the food industry does not cut 'irresponsible' amounts of fat and salt in products. One of Britain's top doctors has accused the food industry of being "profoundly irresponsible" for adding unhealthy amounts of fat and salt to its products.

People with heart disease who worry a great deal may have a higher risk of strokes, heart attacks, and an early death, reports a new study. However, researchers can't yet be certain whether anxiety is the direct cause of these problems.