Health & Beauty

As Devon’s NHS continues to experience severe pressure, local NHS teams are asking friends and relatives of people who are ready to go home from hospital to do all they can to pick them up as soon as possible.

All four of the county’s acute hospitals are seeing a very high number of people who are very poorly and need hospital care, particularly with Covid, flu, other respiratory illnesses and norovirus.

That means that when someone has been assessed by NHS staff as being medically fit to leave, it’s important they are helped home as soon as possible.

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Many will be considering getting a head start on their New Year fitness resolutions.

However, with snow and ice guaranteed for many areas throughout December, it is important take safety into consideration when exercising outdoors.

Matthew Magnante, an exercise author at FitnessVolt, has compiled a list of his most important safety tips to keep in mind when exercising outdoors during the colder months.

Drink even if you don’t feel thirsty

Many may not realise this, but we are at an elevated risk of dehydration when exercising in colder temperatures....

A dentist and former football manager whose life has changed dramatically since his ALS diagnosis has appealed with others who have the disease to join him in a new brain imaging study to help the race to find new treatments.

The University of Exeter’s world-leading Neurodegeneration Imaging Group, led by Professor Marios Politis, is appealing for people who have ALS (also known as motor neurone disease) to get in touch, and take part in a year-long study.

ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the...

You must have watched movies where the eccentric criminal has an underlying mental disorder and commits mysterious crimes. They look so bizarre, but does mental illness affect the masses?

Psychological disorders, behavioral illnesses, and mental diseases change your way of thinking, emotions, and your brain’s chemical balance. A psychological disorder is an unusual change in a person's thinking, behavior, or emotions (or all three) which affects one's functions and habits.

The long list of psychological disorders includes behavior sickness, eating disorders, sleeping...