Lifestyle

Derriford Hospital’s Upper Gastro Intestinal Cancer team have joined the National Public Health England campaign, to raise awareness of oesophago-gastric cancers.

The campaign will run from 26th January to the end of February and is aimed at men and women aged 50 years and over, focusing on key symptoms of oesophageal and stomach cancers.

Marilyn Bolter, UGI specialist nurse...

A cross-party debate on the future of dementia care will take place at the Fourth Plymouth Dementia Conference on Friday (February 6).

Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP Oliver Colvile (Conservative) and parliamentary candidates Luke Pollard (Labour), Ben Osborn (Green), and Penny Mills (UKIP) will take to the stage for a discussion about the political influence on health and social care...

Figures released from Blue Chip Holidays, the South West’s largest provider of 4 and 5 star self-catering properties, indicate that high-end holiday homes in Plymouth and its surrounding area are set for a bumper self-catering season in 2015.

The business, which has over 1,000 self catering holiday homes within its portfolio, has taken record bookings for the city with demand up 6% on...

A young woman from Plymouth, who has cystic fibrosis, will be having the ultimate theatre trip this month, in memory of her big sister.

Hayley Wall, 26, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was six weeks old, has spent a large amount of her adult life on a respiratory ward at Derriford Hospital. Hayley is now at home, following a long stay in hospital over Christmas, but...