Health & Beauty

Conjunctivitis, commonly known as a pink eye, is an infection or inflammation of the membrane known as the conjunctiva. It is a transparent membrane and covers your part of the eye. When the vessels in this membrane get inflammation, it becomes visible. Consequently, your eye becomes pink or red.

Pink eyes will usually discharge a lot of yellowish gunk that might stick around your eyes, making you struggle to open your eyes in the morning. Pink eye usually heals itself within a week or two, but there are methods through which you can treat your pink eye fast and ease its pain....

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is giving people the opportunity to learn how to save lives safely during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The Trust, in association with the Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) and other partner agencies, will host online cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillator training sessions for Restart a Heart Day (RSAH) 2020 on Friday 16 October.

According to RCUK, coronavirus has reduced people’s willingness to perform CPR, and social distancing has limited opportunities for people to learn how to do it...

Hundreds of volunteers from the South West will from today be invited to join a leading phase three COVID-19 vaccine study, as the number of people who have signed up to take part in vaccine research hits 9,220 across Devon, Cornwall and parts of Somerset.

The study will test the safety and effectiveness of a promising new vaccine, developed by US biotechnology company Novavax, across a broad spectrum of people, including those from a variety of age groups and backgrounds. Phase 3 studies involve many thousands of people, giving researchers insights into the effects of a vaccine...

Family and friends of people living with dementia across the South West have put in 9.4 million extra caring hours since lockdown began, an Alzheimer’s Society investigation reveals.

The shocking figure has been blamed on the double whammy of lockdown making dementia symptoms worse, and the chronically underfunded social care system leaving them nowhere else to turn.

Nationally, the charity estimates family and friends have spent an extra 92 million hours caring for loved ones with dementia since 23 March.

In its new report ‘ Worst hit: dementia during...