Health & Beauty

Bite into Health: How Your Diet Shapes Your Smile

Everyone is familiar with the saying “you are what you eat” but many people don’t realize that your smile also reflects your dietary choices. Our dietary choices serve the dual purpose of nourishing our bodies while also being essential for maintaining strong teeth and healthy gums and...

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Call for blood donors in Plymouth

By now many New Year’s Resolutions will be long forgotten but there’s still plenty of time to do something amazing in 2017. Why not make it the year you start saving lives?

Doing something good this year doesn’t have to mean giving something up. We’re asking people in Plymouth to give blood.

In just one hour of your time you could save or improve up to three lives. Proud,...

The importance of sleep

You might not even realise it but your bed plays a very significant part in your health and well-being. In addition to a bad bed making it difficult to get a good night’s sleep, there are other problems that a bad bed can lead to.

You could experience back or neck pain from sleeping on the wrong type of mattress and a bad mattress has even been found to relate to the build up of stress...

REI staff forge further links with Eye Services in Nepal

Members of staff from the REI at Derriford Hospital have visited the Children's Eye, Ear and Rehabilitation Hospital (CHEERS) in Katmandu, Nepal.

Following a very successful first trip two years ago, a second team visited in November 2016. The team included Julie Owen, Senior Orthoptist, Tim Freegard, Paediatric Ophthalmic Specialist, Vasant Raman, Retinal Specialist and was led by...

Help on hand to kickstart the battle of the Christmas bulge at Drake Circus

Health experts and fitness gurus will be on hand this week (January 23-26) to help the people of Plymouth get over the excesses of Christmas.

With everyone over-indulging on festive treats the battle of the yuletide bulge has begun with thousands of people throughout the South West vowing to get fit in the New Year.

Which is why the city’s premier shopping centre, Drake Circus...

Look Stylish With Your Best With Hoop Earrings

It is everyone’s desire to look gorgeous and stylish. People put a lot of efforts in makeups, and forget how wearing a stylish jewelry makes you look classic and fabulous. Earrings comes in many types, but hoop is classier than the rest. If you want to look good in earrings, try wearing hoops, and you will never turn back. Most of the beauty contestants have won the event due to the appearance...

Plymouth children help deliver stop smoking messages

Local children are helping us to reinforce the very important message that smoking is not permitted on the Derriford Hospital site.

In March 2012, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust made a commitment to become completely smokefree. This decision saw the removal of the smoking shelters and the pledge that smoking would no longer be permitted inside any of the Trust’s premises or anywhere...

Volunteers with long term health conditions help each other out in new ‘time bank pilot’

A group of people in Plymouth with long term health conditions are volunteering to help each other and provide mutual support, thanks to a new initiative in the city.

Plymouth City Council and Northern, Eastern, and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (NEW Devon CCG) have commissioned Timebank South West to develop a new ‘time bank’ for local people living with long term health...

New era in cataract surgery at the REI

Patients undergoing cataract surgery at the REI in Derriford Hospital can now benefit from a revolutionary new computer assisted cataract surgery system, which includes robotic-like tracking and data displaying through the operating microscopes.

This new system provides better visual outcomes for patients and is now available at Derriford Hospital, among few selected centres in the...

#TimeToSign PR2: Plymouth calls for Government to consider ‘soft opt out’ on organ donation

Plymouth City Council is calling on the Government to consider a ‘soft opt out’ system on organ donation, following last week’s launch of the #TimeToSign organ donation campaign.

The Council has put forward a motion backing a move away from people having to ‘opt-in’ to organ donation, to the system backed by both the British Medical Association (BMA) of a ‘soft opt out system’, under...

Clinical research support and advice for nursing and allied health professionals

A series of seminars will be held this week for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals as part of a Clinical Research Awareness Week.

The event is being jointly hosted by Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and the Clinical Schools with Plymouth University and will comprise of four seminars over the course of the week, covering topics such as the differences between research and...

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