Health & Beauty

A giant walking ear was the talk of the town when it took to the streets with Exeter hearing specialists to raise awareness of the importance of regular hearing screening and cash for charity.

The team at Specsavers Hearing Centre Exeter were joined by the Specsavers Big Ear as they campaigned for better hearing health awareness in the community and raised a three-figure sum for charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.

Staff collected donations while residents received expert audiology advice and express hearing health checks, with hundreds taking their chance to grab a selfie...

New survey results1released today by LEO Pharma as part of the Know Your SkinTM campaign warn that Devon residents might have a dangerous lack of knowledge when it comes to keeping safe in the sun, and that they could be ignoring potential markers for an increased risk of skin cancer.

The figures suggest that 9 out of 10 people in Devon spend time gardening but, of those, nearly half say they never or rarely apply SPF 30+ sun cream when doing so. One in three say that this is because they don’t think it is necessary to and nearly a third because they don’t spend enough time...

This summer, LEO Pharma and Otter Nurseries have teamed up to bring the Know Your Skin™ campaign to Devon to raise awareness of solar keratosis among gardeners. Solar keratosis (also known as SK) is defined as rough or scaly skin patches that develop where unprotected skin has been exposed to sun over time. SK can lead to non-melanoma skin cancer in a small number of cases.

On Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 August 2014, Otter Nurseries in Ottery St Mary will play host to the Know Your Skin campaign where visitors will be able to learn how to check their skin for sun damage and obtain...

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a substantially increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in older people, according to the most robust study of its kind ever conducted.

An international team, led by Dr David Llewellyn at the University of Exeter Medical School, found that study participants who were severely Vitamin D deficient were more than twice as likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

The team studied elderly Americans who took part in the Cardiovascular Health Study. They discovered that adults in the study who were moderately deficient...