Have you woken up feeling sick, decided you need to see a doctor today, but don’t have one you can rely on? ZocDoc rescues you from your misery and pain and can match you with a doctor in your city that will most likely see you within 24 hours.

ManTherapy addresses an issue traditionally kept quiet: the scarily high levels of suicide among working-aged men. Dr. Rich Mahogany’s shall-we-say… unconventional approach puts the issue of depression into the spotlight in a way that even the most manly of men will listen to…

There’s so many apps and sites trying to help you get rid of bad habits… but what about keeping up the good ones!? Enter DayScore, the site you never knew you needed, until now…

Believe it or not… Cardiio, our iPhone app of the week, will actually measure your heart rate accurately by scanning your face using the front-facing camera of your iPhone/iPad!

Sleepio is an innovative solution for sleeping disorders, it offers a 6 week program, clinically proven, to help you overcome your poor sleep. Finding it hard to sleep? What you waiting for!

Meddik presents a better way to search for your much needed health information and find support, it allows you to ask questions and learn from the collective experience of people like you.

It’s time to diagnose me! We review the HealthTap Q&A app and website, where you get real, expert health answers on your symptoms, from real health experts.

Symcat is a priceless online symptom checker.

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Ladies and gents, meet Bloodnote, our App of the Week on All My Faves. It’s an excellent $1.99 app for iPhone that uses an innovative, minimalist display to log, check and help you control your blood pressure and pulse rate daily. 

Did you know?…

DrugCite – I don’t mean to scare you at all, but… did you know that 5.61% of Aspirin users reporting adverse events to the FDA reported gastro-intestinal hemorrhages after taking it? Did you know that 6.2% of Ritalin (the ADD medication) side effects reported were negative neurological side effects? Did you know that 5.16% of people who took Alka Selzer Plus Cold (a common cold medication) and reported side effects to the FDA needed Cardiac investigations for adverse side effects on their heart rate and blood pressure? No, I didn’t either…

This site + app actually pays you to go to the Gym... and fines if you don't!

Gym-Pact – The unmistakable allure of splashing out on an expensive gym membership is something many of us just can’t resist, with the opportunity to transform from Mr.Measly to Mr.Muscle too good to pass up. However, we don’t tend to factor in the likelihood that after joining, the most difficult weight to actually pick up is, well, ourselves. Sometimes we need just that little bit of extra motivation to get up and go. And that’s where Gym-Pact.com comes in, ensuring that the couch potato in you will remain firmly locked away until after you’ve been to the gym!

Headspace Meditation – This, friends, is meditation for the internet generation. This isn’t some kooky class that your mother-in-law once went to and now insists you attend every other week, with a hippie instructor leisurely guiding you along the road to ‘nirvana’. Not at all.

This is an online program and free iPhone app designed out of cutting edge, scientific research, that appreciates the busy life you live. Headspace doesn’t want to make any drastic changes. It simply wants to help a modern generation for whom time is an all-too-elusive commodity take just 10 minutes out each day, follow some simple techniques and exercises, and help to enhance our busy lives by making us less stressed, more clear thinking and more motivated.

So before you start thinking i’ve gone all spacey, telling you about the inner calm I’ve been feeling over the last few days, take a look at the Headspace program. It’s led by zen-like, yet relate-able, Buddhist Brit Andy Puddicombe, and you get a series of beautifully animated, daily videos to start you off on the road to a clearer, more motivated mind. The video above on the benefits of meditation is a preview of the sort of short video you’ll be getting when you sign up for the 10 day trial Headspace offers. And you can click here to explore whether Headspace could help you get your mind in order!