ONLINE doctors Vala Health is warning the public against buying Covid 19 antibody tests, currently selling for as much as £250 which aren’t licenced in the UK and might not work.
Vala Health CEO Pete Trainor fears people are so anxious due to the Covid 19 pandemic they may not be aware the testing kits, which are supposed to tell if you have ever had the virus or not, have not been passed by the UK government so may not be fit for purpose.
Now, Vala Health, which provides advice from healthcare professionals online and over the phone, is offering PCR tests to see if you...
The National Trust is calling for people around the UK to share their letters with the conservation charity and its followers and members, about their lockdown experiences. The Trust plans to add a selection to its historic collection of letters.
In the two-week period from 11-25 March, the charity saw a 1,000% jump in visits to the notecard category of its online shop, suggesting people were anticipating that traditional handwritten notes and letters would be a key way to keep in touch during the lockdown.
The National Trust’s Head Curator, Sally-Anne Huxtable, says: “...
On your daily exercises and walks, you might have seen rainbow pictures in people’s windows painted and drawn by families and households to show their support for the NHS at this time.
But have you seen pictures of praying hands in the windows of homes too?
A church in Exeter is encouraging Christians and those who have a heart to pray at this time, to download, paint or draw pictures of ‘emoji’-like’ praying hands in their window to indicate to their neighbours and others passing by their home they are praying for the crisis we are facing at this nation.
Food charity, FareShare South West , has announced that it will now support 5 organisations across Devon & Cornwall with emergency food support in response to the impact of Coronavirus.
FareShare South West, an independent franchise of FareShare UK, take in-date, good quality surplus food on scale from right across the food industry and redistribute it to more than 260 partner charities and settings who support the most vulnerable. Their current list of partners spans school breakfast clubs, community centres, homeless shelters, refuge centres, elderly people’s lunch clubs,...
Having abnormally small red blood cells – a condition known as microcytosis – could indicate cancer, new research has concluded
Led by the University of Exeter Medical School, the study of more than 12,000 UK patients aged over 40, found that the cancer risk in males was 6.2 per cent, compared to 2.7 per cent in those without microcytosis.
The research, funded by Cancer Research UK and NIHR and published in BJGP , found that In females, the risk of cancer was 2.7 per cent in those with microcytosis, compared to 1.4 per cent without.
In the case of low outdoor spaces, you may feel a lack of entertainment and outdoor activities in fine weather. Perhaps, it is not the lack of spaces it could be lack of inspiration. Here, you go with some awesome ideas to change the outdoor spaces and have fun by spending time in these beautify decorated areas. Besides that, the spending time in green areas is always refreshing, there are some other great reasons to landscape the garden for summer. The reasons are listed below,
It may seem a little esoteric, but the spaces in your house with great shapes helps to oxygenate
Specialist insurer Ecclesiastical is giving away another £1million to charities with the return of its Movement for Good awards.
In 2019 more than 2,300 kind-hearted Devon residents voted for over 140 charities across the region.
Last year saw an amazing 98,000 people around the UK support the Movement for Good awards in total, with over 7,000 charitable causes up and down the country receiving votes. The 500 winning charities were picked at random from those nominated.
This year 500 more charities will each receive £1,000 during the first phase of the campaign,...
A leading Devon law firm has produced a series of guides to help businesses during coronavirus. Stephens Scown LLP’s covid-19 guides cover how businesses can survive and thrive, key legal issues businesses should not forget about and considerations before hibernating a business.
“Although we are starting to understand how the UK may come out of lockdown, there is a very long way to go and lots of challenges ahead for Cornish businesses. There is so much information out there for businesses, but it can be quite overwhelming to access what is relevant,” says Richard Baker, Stephens...
Volunteers from the University of Exeter have teamed up with the local community to build thousands of disposable face shields, to help protect frontline NHS workers during the COVID-19 epidemic.
The team from the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences (EMPS) have assembled around 2,000 face shields for the local healthcare community, including the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
The volunteers, who are PhD students, researchers and professional services staff, collaborated with a consortium of local businesses to make the face shields in a specially...
Now more than ever there exists an array of smokers’ products beyond the traditional cigarette. The introduction of the public smoking ban in 2007 represented a step-change for smokers and also helped lay the platform for the emergence of new products in the marketplace.
Many of these products are regarded as being healthier than the traditional cigarette, while some aren’t smoked at all. And though overall cigarette sales have dropped during the last 15 years, other products have grown from strength to strength.
