Health & Beauty

New data released today by the charity Asthma UK highlights that almost three quarters of people in the South West (70%) would not know what to do if someone were to have a potentially life threatening asthma attack.

Someone in the UK has an asthma attack every 10 seconds, yet many people wouldn’t know how to help someone if they were struggling to breathe.

The charity is particularly concerned that one in every 11 people (9% of respondents) don’t think that asthma attacks can kill.

Three children in every classroom have asthma, making it the most common long term...

A DEVON public health campaign that helps parents care for their children when they have minor illnesses like common coughs and colds, without the unnecessary use of antibiotics, has been shortlisted for a national award.

The Listen To Your Gut campaign, led by Devon County Council (DCC), the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust (NDHT) and the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), is a finalist in the inaugural Antibiotic Guardian Awards.

The awards celebrate those who have done the most to tackle the growing issue of antibiotic resistance...

Anyone with experience of the RD&E’s cancer services is being invited to help boost public and patient membership of a joint group set up by the Trust.

The Trust has set up the Exeter Cancer User Group as part of its commitment to continuously improve its cancer services.

One of its key aims is to hear the views and experiences of both past and present cancer patients and their families/carers and in particular identify ways they feel the Trust can develop and strengthen its cancer services.

The level of commitment needed for anyone wanting to join is very light...

Blood pressure differences between each arm can signal an increased risk of dying of heart disease, even in healthy people, a new large-scale study has found.

The University of Exeter Medical School has led an analysis of more than 3,000 people in Scotland who each had blood pressure measurements taken from both arms, published today in the British Journal of General Practice. Researchers say the findings show the importance of routinely measuring blood pressure in both arms.

Up to now, such research has mainly focussed on people who have already encountered heart disease...