Health & Wellbeing

NHS England have announced that Duncan Burton has been appointed as Chief Nursing Officer for England.

It is not every day that somebody decides they are going to take on the challenge of completing an IronMan and yet this September will see Peter McGahan take part in his second IronMan.

Evelyn Foulkner, a 72-year-old grandmother from Atlanta, in the U.S.A., participated in a bodybuilding competition for the first time, before bringing home 2 medals and impressing everyone with her performance.

Local student leadership team and charity committees, made up of Year 13 and 12 students from across the Central Region Schools Trust’s Sixth Form schools, came together to lead and plan a week of exciting activities to raise money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Drop-in sessions to raise awareness of hepatitis will take place at the Library of Birmingham this month, ahead of the building’s iconic façade being illuminated in purple to mark World Hepatitis Day.

Business supporters of Midlands Air Ambulance Charity attended its annual Corporate Golf Day at JCB Golf & Country Club.

Health City Cayman Islands has just unveiled its second hospital, Health City at Camana Bay, in George Town.

‘Personalised’ hip replacement surgery might be just what the doctor ordered for people with hip arthritis – according to new research.

With over 36 million pets in the UK, over half (56%) of owners admit to letting their furry friends sleep in their bedrooms but how safe is this during a heatwave with temperatures as high as 30 degrees?

On Monday 1st July, Midlands Air Ambulance Charity were tasked to not one, but two hoax calls across its six-county operating patch.

An inquest heard by a health trust has heard that major concerns were raised over the hospital care for former Arsenal and Everton footballer Kevin Campbell.

Bron Echols has made history as the first author to publish a book about skincare for Black children.

The United Nations has announced that 24 November 2024 will be 'World Conjoined Twins Day' and will be observed each year, to emphasize the need to address the condition of conjoined twins, advocate for their treatment and care, and promote their well-being and social inclusion. 

After months and months of training and fundraising, The Tour 21 class of 2023 have completed all 21 stages of the Tour de France route, just one week ahead of the professionals, and raised over £1 million!

The Reproductive Precision Medicine Unit of Menarini Silicon Biosystems (MSB) presented last week, at the 21st World Congress of the Fetal Medicine Foundation meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, results of a large multicentre study describing their next generation non-invasive prenatal testing technology using foetal cells isolated from maternal blood.

As England head into the knock-out stages of the Euros, walking football fever is growing apace across the country.