Did you know that quitting smoking is the most important thing you can do for your baby?
If you are pregnant and smoke yourself, or live with someone who smokes around you, your baby is exposed to a number of dangerous chemicals.
Your baby may receive a restriction in the amount of oxygen it needs, causing its heart to have to beat harder. Smoking can cause a greater risk of miscarriage and still birth and a lower birth weight.
After they are born, your baby is more at risk of ear infections and asthma. Plus they are more likely to become a smoker themselves....
Early access to hip replacement is cost-effective and provides significant benefits for patients' quality of life, a study has shown.
Ruben Mujica-Mota, from the University of Exeter, carried out research comparing early access and delayed hip replacement surgery in Italy on behalf of the European Health Technology Institute for Socio-Economic Research (EHTI).
His findings, which are now published in the journal Value in Health, demonstrate both the cost-effectiveness of early hip replacement, as well as the benefits for patients.
A campaign to help make up a shortfall in new blood donors by recruiting 100,000 New Donors in 100 Days has been hailed a great success after the target was smashed two weeks early.
People came forward in their thousands to support the campaign run by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) which was launched following a dramatic decline in the number of younger donors signing up in 2012.
A total of 2,519 (with 382 in Exeter) from Devon showed their heart in the run up to Valentine’s Day joining the 119,907 that signed up across England and North Wales. The new sign ups will help...
A GP‘s innovative measures to support patients with diabetes has been recognised by a prize set up in memory of one of the pioneers of health education in Devon.
Dr Alice Harney received the MacLeod Post Graduate Prize at the University of Exeter Medical School, after she designed a care plan card which allows nurses and GPs to easily review the needs of the patient. The cards have been adopted at College Surgery in Cullompton, Mid Devon, where Dr Harney has also set up a diabetes support group.
Dr Harney received £300 because judges deemed her achievement to be an...
It's a bit of a cliche, but nobody said this was going to be easy! This week I've had my first real setback: straining my soleus (the muscle from your calf to your achilles). This, coupled with a busy weekend involving a fair amount of eating and drinking exactly what I shouldn't be, has made me feel like I've really fallen off the wagon.
All that being said, I have still managed to fit in 2 1/2 training sessions! The first this week was another circuits and resistance session. After warming up and stretching, I started with a circuit of 5 exercises; doing each for 45 seconds. The...
Cervical cancer has attracted much media coverage in recent years, largely because of Jade Goody’s sad death from the disease, and yet as we embark on Cervical Cancer Prevention Week in 2013, 20% of women in the UK fail to attend cervical screening when invited.
A dynamic event highlighted the wide range of medical and health research involving the University of Exeter, the NHS and business partners.
Staff from a number of University departments, the NHS, local charities and businesses, as well as students, gathered in the Forum, to speak to researchers first-hand about their pioneering work as part of a poster display.
Interdisciplinary opportunities in research were highlighted by the key note speeches from Professor Nick Stone of Physics, Dr Natalia Lawrence of Psychology, and Professor Jonathan Mill, of the University of Exeter...
NICE has today (9th January), published new medical technology guidance supporting the use of a device to heal fractured bones.
The NICE guidance advises that the EXOGEN ultrasound bone healing system benefits patients and the NHS when used for treating long bone fractures with non-union (bone fractures that have failed to heal after 9 months). However, the case for adopting EXOGEN routinely for long bone fractures with delayed healing, that is, fractures which do not show radiological evidence of healing after 3 months, wasn't supported because of uncertainties in the evidence....
Now is the time when people start to feel the effects of Christmas excesses, and resolve to live healthier, fitter and more active lives; give up smoking or reduce their alcohol intake. And with just three months to go before the County Council takes on the responsibility for improving the health of Devon’s communities, Devon’s Director of Public Health and Devon County Council’s lead for health and wellbeing are making New Year’s resolutions of their own.
An East Devon-based holistic cosmetic clinic dedicated to face and body skin health both physically and visually, is expanding to larger, brand new premises in central Exeter. South West Skin & Laser based in Budleigh Salterton has acquired the 125-year leasehold interest of an extensive suite in Augustus House, a large residential development on Isca Place located in New North Road. The 7,233 sq.ft. unit based near Central Station is currently nothing more than a concrete shell, however the Mother and daughter team Dr Ros Debenham a qualified doctor and Katie Debenham a fully...
