Cannabis Ingredient To be Classified as Medicine in UK
A Cannabis-based ingredient known as cannabidiol is set to be classed as a legal medicine by the UK medicines regulator. The Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) first looked into cannabidiol, or CBD, after numerous manufacturing companies made...
Weekend Friendly Home
Kiran Singh
Work's tough. Sometimes the week gets you down. How do you make sure you're back up by Monday? You could transform your home into your own refreshing, re-energizing weekend retreat. Though a spa weekend or a mini vacation...
Don’t ignore the warning signs: New campaign Drives Awareness of Cancer Signs
A new campaign in the Midlands aims to drive awareness of persistent tummy troubles as possible signs of cancer.
In the Midlands around 55,800 people are diagnosed with cancer each year and around 26,100 die of the disease ,,
Key findings...
Temporary Blindness Caused by Smartphone use at Night
The New England Journal of Medicine’s latest edition details the condition that causes “transient blindness”, this occurs when using your smartphone in the dark. What specifically causes the vision loss is using only one eye, the solution is to...
Fitness Goals For 2015
Achieve your health and fitness goal this year!Every New Year many of us make a health or weightless resolution and often many of us will break it!
So this year let’s stop the cycle and try to stick to...
Benefits of quitting smoking
By Sarah Stables
Stoptober is back this October encouraging people to take up the 28-day stop smoking challenge. If you are a smoker, this may be the perfect time to think about giving up.
Around 100,000 people die...
George Alagiah encourages South Asians in London to use the free NHS bowel cancer...
The BBC broadcaster, George Alagiah is supporting the NHS London lifesaving campaign to encourage more South Asian people to use their free NHS bowel cancer screening home test, which checks if they could have bowel cancer.
Speaking of his own experience of...
BAME Mental Health
Service Launches in Nottingham
A new support service has launched in Nottingham to promote mental health awareness and wellbeing among the city’s black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities.
The free service, called STEPS (Support Towards Empowering People Service), offers one-to-one...
Emmerdale star Bhasker Patel gets behind the new ACT FAST stroke campaign
Emmerdale actor Bhasker Patel is calling on South Asians to know the common signs of stroke highlighted in the latest Public Health England national Act FAST campaign.
Act FAST reminds people of the key symptoms of stroke and the importance...
Monthly Health with Dr Phil Dyer
This month Heartlands Hospital’s Dr Dyer advises on AnorexiaANOREXIA is an eating disorder and a mental health condition.
It is an extreme form of controlling and limiting what you eat. Anorexia usually begins in the mid-teens leading through to young...
