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New survey reveals Winterbourne is one of Birmingham’s most popular places to ‘take a breath’
The survey, commissioned by Taskforce for Lung Health, invited local residents to name their favourite city location where they can enjoy their own breathing space, as part of a brand-new awareness campaign around lung health. Winterbourne, part...2021-08-31 1778 0 -
David Sullivan completes life-saving challenge
Twelve weeks, over 1,100 miles, a quarter of a million golf shots, more than 920 lost golf balls and an estimated 30,000 people trained in life-saving CPR skills. This is what former Armed Forces trainer, David...2021-08-27 1326 0 -
New clinical risk management tools are needed to prevent COVID-19 deaths, say experts
A new study exposes the dire need for new clinical risk management tools to help hospital healthcare workers prevent the deaths and intensive care admissions of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) COVID-19 patients with pneumonia, say researchers. The call for healthcare policy change comes after...2021-08-22 1298 0 -
Healthy Heart Tips
Getting Fit Whilst Getting to Work Many more of us who have been working from home will be set to return to offices either part-time or full-time over the coming weeks and months. There has never...2021-08-08 1352 0 -
Cooking with coal or wood associated with increased risk of major eye diseases
A study involving nearly half a million people in China reveals a clear link between cooking with wood or coal, and an increased risk of major eye diseases that can lead to blindness, according to a...2021-08-03 1422 0 -
NHS England announces new Innovative Medicines Fund to fast-track promising new drugs
NHS patients are set to benefit from early access to potentially life-saving new medicines, including cutting-edge gene therapies, thanks to a new Innovative Medicines Fund and £680 million of ringfenced funding, the NHS chief executive has...2021-07-28 1569 0 -
Older people are worse at learning to help themselves, but just as good at learning to help others
Older adults may be slower to learn actions and behaviours that benefit themselves, but new research shows they are just as capable as younger people of learning behaviours that benefit others. Researchers at the Universities of...2021-07-26 1627 0 -
Health inequality charity launch emotive campaign to take action on health inequalities among British Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities
Social Action for Health are calling on Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities to take part in world’s largest genetics study into people of their heritage, to help scientists understand and treat the causes and consequences of poor health People of Bangladeshi...2021-07-25 825 0 -
UK to announce Fall booster shots against Corona
The Minister of Health has said that as the trials of different combinations come to an end, the government will soon announce its plan for booster shots against Covid-19 across the country in the fall. Last...2021-07-08 3186 0 -
Heart Research UK Healthy Heart Tips
Improving Your Cholesterol Profile There are two main types of cholesterol, LDL, sometimes termed ‘bad’ cholesterol, and HDL, sometimes termed as ‘good cholesterol’. The reality is that we do need some of both types of cholesterol,...2021-06-05 3574 0
