Lifestyle

Patients across Devon are being reminded that most GP practices will be closed over the festive and New Year period and that if they need medical advice to make use of alternative services such as 111.

Most GP practices will close at the end of the day on Friday 24 December and will re-open again on Wednesday 29 December until Friday 31 December. They will then be closed again from...

For our wellbeing, we implement plants into our diet for numerous health benefits, yet this does not often translate to the beauty products we directly apply to our skin. Countless natural food ingredients are full of vitamins, antioxidants, nutrients, and minerals, which work wonders for our bodies when we consume them, so the same principles should apply in our beauty regime. Here are some...

Limited but growing evidence indicates that alcohol consumption may be increasing during the coronavirus crisis. In order to assess if people’s drinking behaviour had been affected by the coronavirus outbreak, the NIH asked participants to complete an online survey at two stages – before taking lockdown measures and after they began implementing them.

The results showed a slight...

Staff and volunteers at the Home Park vaccination centre are pulling out all the stops to make sure no-one misses out on their booster vaccination.

The Home Park team recorded their best-ever day for vaccinations on Monday 13 December, giving 3,108 jabs at the Argyle stadium and a further 359 at Mutley Baptist Church. The previous highest number of vaccinations in any given day was 2...