Health & Beauty

Pioneering new research has unlocked a new technique to help combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, that cause debilitating and often life-threatening human illness.

Researchers from the University of Exeter has shown that the use of ‘sequential treatments’ – using alternating doses of antibiotics – might offer effective treatment against bacterial infection.

Crucially, the research also demonstrates this technique for administering treatment also reduces the risk of the bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics, and so maintaining the long-term effectiveness of...

People all over Devon are putting their trainers, shoes and boots on and taking to the streets and pathways of their towns and villages in celebration of Devon Walking for Health Week from 13th-19th April.

Walking for Health is a successful national partnership between Macmillan Cancer Support and the Ramblers to promote walking as a free, fun and inclusive form of regular exercise for all ages. Although walks happen every week all around Devon, the Celebration Week focuses on nine established walks from Tavistock to Silverton where walkers will be winding through their local...

Almost half (45%) of office workers in the South West spend less than 30 minutes a day walking around at work, according to new statistics released ahead of the first On Your Feet Britain campaign to get office workers moving more.

Get Britain Standing is partnering with the British Heart Foundation to launch the UK’s first On Your Feet Britain campaign on 24th April, encouraging workers to ditch their office chairs and raise vital funds for cardiovascular disease.

Workers are encouraged to sit less and move more to reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease whilst raising...

An Exmouth dental surgery is encouraging anyone suffering discomfort with their dentures to contact their dentist, after experiencing a surge in older people asking for help and advice.

Around 3.7 million people in Britain currently wear dentures and research shows that many of them have difficulty chewing ‒ and even speaking.

“We are increasingly seeing patients who have put up with badly fitting dentures for many years,” said Rob Gosling, Clinical Dental Technician at Select Dental.

“There is no reason for dentures to be fitted badly in the first place, even...