Health & Beauty

Devon residents, among which there is reported to be a higher than average number of people living with asthma, will be thrilled to hear that NICE issued positive guidance supporting the use of a medication called Xolair® (omalizumab) for patients with severe, persistent allergic asthma.

Following this announcement all eligible patients including, for the first time, children aged six years and above, should now have no barriers to receiving omalizumab, a life-changing medicine for the treatment of severe allergic asthma.

The announcement that Omalizumab will now be...

Since competing on The X Factor in 2010, One Direction have taken the UK, and US, charts by storm. Now they are set to try and break a different industry, the cosmetic and beauty industry.

One Direction is set to collaborate with Superdrug stores and create some brand new products for the beauty shops' MUA range. The MUA range, which has lip glosses inspired by another X Factor star Alexandra Burke, will include nail polishes and cheek tints.

All of the One Direction inspired products will have five different variations. There will be five nail polishes in the collection,...

Devon project ‘The Devon Active Villages’ are urging locals to give them their support and help them win this year’s National Lottery Awards. The Devon Active Villages project, by Active Devon, is a finalist in this year’s award’s Sport category; one of seven categories that will recognise the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects.

The Devon Active Villages works with people to discover what sports they enjoy, and once they have gained this information they try to arrange for these sports to take place in local communities and villages. So far the group has helped around 10,000...

Hundreds of construction workers across Exeter are being encouraged to cover up and slap on the sun cream as part of a national sun safety campaign from Taylor Wimpey. Sun awareness posters have been put up on developments across the region to highlight the dangers of working in the sun without protection. Taylor Wimpey has also linked up with on-line retailer thesuncareshop.com to offer discounted sun cream for all its employees and contractors working on site. The initiative comes on the back of research which revealed that two thirds of builders never wear sun cream when in the UK...