Health & Beauty

The NHS in Devon has teamed up with award-winning department store John Lewis to find out why its customers have such a great experience.

Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) chief nurse Jenny Winslade said the CCG wanted to learn from John Lewis “hearing how the department store approaches customer satisfaction could help the NHS translate this into improved patient care.”

“We want to find out from John Lewis the secrets behind why its customers are so satisfied and we will use these to benefit our patients,” said Jenny Winslade, the CCG...

Nature has beneficial effects that help us cope with stress at work, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The research, conducted by Dr Valerie Gladwell at the University of Essex, highlights the power of the 'great outdoors' to improve both physiological and psychological wellbeing.

"The modern era has brought a decline in levels of physical activity, accompanied by huge increases in physical disability and diseases, as well as an increase in cases of mental ill-health," says Dr Gladwell. "Today, not only are rates of obesity,...

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,...