Health & Beauty

Patients at the Mardon Neuro-rehabilitation Centre at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust will benefit from specialist rehabilitation equipment, thanks to a donation from the Exeter Chiefs Foundation and Mardon League of Friends.

The donation means that patients at the Mardon centre, a 12-bedded unit in Exeter providing inpatient neurorehabilitation, will be able to practice walking on both the treadmill and over ground with the support of the Litegait Partial Weight-Bearing System, worth nearly £30,000.

This system allows patients to progress from no weight to...

Work nowadays has surprisingly become not a good thing for most people. People now see it as not an extension of themselves, but instead a hindrance to pursuing the day-to-day activities they enjoy. Workers loathe their employment and regret being a slave to corporate institutions. All of us now spend less time bonding with the people who matter the most or pursuing our passions. Even healthy activities, like eating breakfast, we also skip just to finish some work that’s due. With this problem, people tend to become physically weak and vulnerable to diseases. Listed here are healthy...

The jury is out on whether or not marijuana is a gateway drug. Some studies say yes, and some say no. There are benefits to quitting weed o quitting weed, but the main question about benefits is whether or not that main benefit is due to the avoidance of a major factor in drug use. In other words, does smoking marijuana lead to the use of stronger drugs?

Cannabis, itself, is considered a “soft” drug. Why? It’s nearly impossible to overdose on marijuana, which has been touted as being its most recognizable positive of all. Even with alcohol, you can get what’s called alcohol...

A grandad of 10 from West Devon has said being invited to take part in a clinical trial was the “luckiest day of his life” following an unexpected cancer diagnosis.

Seventy-three-year-old Fred Mead, a retired construction management consultant from Tinhay near Tavistock, was recently invited by his local GP practice, Tavyside, to take part in an innovative clinical trial investigating whether swallowing a special sponge can detect Barrett’s Oesophagus -a condition that can increase a person’s risk of developing oesophageal (food pipe) cancer.

Two weeks after taking part in...