Health & Beauty

Have you ever heard the saying about how, if we all ate the same food and exercised the same amount, everyone’s bodies would still look different? It’s not only a reminder that diet and exercise varies widely for everyone — nor is it something that should be completely motivated by external appearances — but it emphasizes that maintaining health is never a one-size-fits all approach.

Committing to good health and wellbeing is a complex, multi-faceted, and ever-changing process. It’s also something that requires a great deal of experimentation throughout our lives as we try to...

A medical student at the University of Exeter, who is also Miss Cardiff, has aligned her career path to developing a cure for alopecia after living with the condition for two years.

Millie-Mae, 19, was just about to compete in the 2019 Miss Wales final when she noticed a patch of hair loss on her head. Before she knew it, her hair would fall out in clumps while in the shower. After calling her GP, Millie-Mae was told that she has alopecia areata.

Alopecia areata is a disease that typically happens when the immune system attacks hair follicles and causes hair loss....

More than £15 million in government funding will support a university-NHS partnership in setting up the Westcountry’s first Biomedical Research Centre, to translate scientific discoveries into tangible benefits for patients.

The award, from the National Institute for Health and Care Research, will help the partners develop new treatments. It will support them to run more clinical trials to get effective treatments into clinical practice where they can benefit people, improve diagnoses and develop better precision approaches to target the right therapies to the right people using...

The University of Exeter will collaborate in groundbreaking worldwide research into the genetic and environmental factors of mental health in young people.

Mental health disorders affect one out of four people during their lifetime, with more than three quarters affected before the age of 24. Now, Professor Jonathan Mill , of the University of Exeter Medical School, is joining researchers from across the world in the new project Youth-GEMS (Gene Environment Interactions in Mental Health TrajectorieS of Youth), which will be coordinated by Maastricht University. The European...