Living With Diabetes
Health Advice By Dr Abd Tahrani, Consultant Diabetologist At Heartlands HospitalWorld Diabetes Day is celebrated on 14 November every year and aims to raise awareness of the condition.
Did you know around 2.9 million people living in the...
Sunny & Shay; As We Proceed…
This month, Sunny had an operation which has meant that we both have had to pause and take some time out and look at the way in which we address men's health. We've been inundated with messages of support...
Stroke survivor Jaswant Naker (from Ealing) shares his story in a new ACT FAST...
Public Health England has released a series of films as part of the national Act FAST campaign, to help raise awareness of the vital role anyone can play when they see someone having a stroke.
Jaswant Naker from Ealing is...
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...
Suits Donated to Hospital in Memory of Daughter
A Leeds family whose daughter passed away last year have donated suits to a hospital in order for other young patients to retain their dignity.
Hafsah was only 11 when she passed away after a month long battle with a...
Doctors Fail To Diagnose Cancer Resulting In Death
A Birmingham entrepreneur died from a brain tumour after doctors repeatedly failed to diagnose the cancer.
65-year-old, Prem Bedi, the father of two, was diagnosed with the tumour four months before he passed away.
Mr Bedi’s widow, Shashi, of Wylde Green,...
Breakthrough the Ice
The social media craze of 2014, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, has managed to raise vital funds for gene discovery in the progressive neurodegenerative disease. Scientists have discovered a new gene that contributes to the disease, NEK1.
ALS is also...
Monthly Health with Dr Phil Dyer
This month Dr Dyer gives advice on irritable bowel syndromeIrritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects both men and women. It is a common functional disorder of the gut, with symptoms including recurrent abdominal pain, discomfort, bloating and irregular bowel function...
Conceiving Troubles
Infertility - where a couple is unable to get pregnant despite having regular unprotected sex - is predicted to affect 3.5 million people in the UK.
A new study of more than 15,000 women and men in Britain revealed that...
England’s Chief Nurse Urges People with Type 1 Diabetes to ‘Not Let it Define...
England’s Chief Nursing Officer has urged young people newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes to respect their condition and ‘not to let it define them’.
Jane Cummings was 19 when she was diagnosed with Type 1 and has needed to...
