Health & Wellbeing

Former footballer Andy Cole and TV’s Married at First Sight’s Marilyse Corrigan are amongst those backing a new initiative to encourage more people to consider living kidney donation as a new poll reveals just 14% of adults in the West Midlands would consider donating a kidney to a stranger, despite 71% of them believing you can change someone’s life even if you’ve never met them.

Dementia Action Week marks Alzheimer's Society's biggest and longest running awareness campaign, where, each year, work will be done with individuals and organisations to encourage people to ‘act on dementia’.

A strategy designed to improve the lives of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Wolverhampton has been published.

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity has announced Sunday 1st September 2024 for its rescheduled 2024 Bike4Life Ride Out and Festival.

Health City Cayman Islands, a tertiary care Caribbean facility is celebrating its 10-year anniversary since opening its doors on April 2, 2014.

Destiny-Rae is simply a record breaker.

Research has shown that over half (58%) of brits feel self-conscious in the gym, but with those exercising regularly having better mental and physical health, how can you overcome gym anxiety and make the most of your gym experience?

Heritage Resorts & Golf in Mauritius proudly introduces its very first Wellness Month: a dedicated period to wellbeing, vitality, and renewal, between 16th May and 16th June 2024.

Marie-Claire and Paula met in late 2021 at a One Walsall networking session, they connected and thought it would be a great idea to work together.

Did you know there are more micro-organisms living within your digestive system than there are trees on planet Earth or stars in the Milky Way? 

Marking this week’s Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week – an annual campaign to encourage people to talk about their mental health before, during and after pregnancy - around one in five women experience a mental health problem during pregnancy or within the early postnatal years.

Young carers in Wolverhampton can now get support at their local Family Hub.

UK Health Secretary, Victoria Atkins, has praised the work of GPs in Mill Hill, in London, following a recent visit to a surgery in the area.

A Birmingham mental health charity is celebrating after winning two prestigious national care sector awards.

Beyond2020, the flagship initiative launched by the Zayed Sustainability Prize, the UAE's pioneering award for sustainability and humanitarianism, have announced the deployment of AI-powered mammography services across Costa Rica to support the early detection and treatment of breast cancer for women living in underprivileged communities.

Spring has arrived and the first 'pollen bomb' of the year is set to hit any day now with millions of residents in the U.K. expected to be affected, with, according to a new study, the West Midlands being the worst.