Health & Beauty

SKILLED Exeter Specsavers staff have been praised for saving the life of a mum-of-three with a rare brain condition.

Megan Turner, 22, had been suffering debilitating headaches for months. She had seen specialists, but they could find nothing wrong.

She then booked an appointment for an eye test at the Exeter Specsavers store, where the optometrist noticed that Megan’s optic nerve was badly swollen.

She was urgently referred to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, where they found that Megan had intracranial hypertension, which is a build-up of pressure around the...

When people hear the term “Botox,” they usually assume the process involves getting rid of some facial wrinkles using a few injections from a needle. However, Botox has come a long way since it first became the rage over two decades ago. Botox offers a lot more than just the stereotypical generalization most people think about when they hear the term “Botox.”

Nowadays, there are four different types of Botox-like injectables on the market, which include Botox, Dysport, Xeomin, and Jeuveau. All four of these products use an injectable form of botulinum toxin to smooth wrinkles. They...

If you are looking for a career which enables you to help people who are suffering, but without the use of surgery or drugs, the field of Complementary and Alternative Medicine or CAM could be ideal for you. Alternative therapies and medicine can be used in the treatment of both physical and mental illnesses. It often involves the use of ancient techniques and disciplines from other parts of the world as well as physical therapy, natural supplements, specialised diets, and herbs. There numerous CAM career paths which offer a great deal of job satisfaction and continuing progression, but...

Living a healthy lifestyle may help offset a person’s genetic risk of dementia, according to new research.

The study was led by the University of Exeter - simultaneously published today in JAMA and presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2019 in Los Angeles. The research found that the risk of dementia was 32 per cent lower in people with a high genetic risk if they had followed a healthy lifestyle, compared to those who had an unhealthy lifestyle.

Participants with high genetic risk and an unfavourable lifestyle were almost three times more likely...