Health & Beauty

Devon Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP) has published a new report evaluating Derriford Hospital’s maternity setting in Plymouth from the perspective of service users.

The report details findings and recommendations for improvement from their 15 Steps visit in January 2026. During the visit, a group of service users joined Devon MNVP staff and volunteers used the NHS...

Starting orthodontic treatment is easy to frame as a purely cosmetic decision. Straighter teeth, a better bite, a more balanced smile. That’s the headline version. But ask anyone who has actually begun treatment with aligners or braces, and they’ll usually tell you the same thing: the real changes start much earlier, and they’re often smaller, stranger, and more interesting than expected....

When Sarah, a 52-year-old primary school teacher from Plymouth, first bought protein powder, she hid it in the back of her kitchen cupboard. "I felt ridiculous," she admits. "Like I was pretending to be some sort of athlete." She'd spent months battling the 3pm energy crash that left her struggling through after-school meetings, surviving on biscuits and coffee. A colleague suggested trying...

There is a lot of noise in the pre-workout supplement market. Products range from well-formulated blends with clinical doses of researched compounds to underdosed products that are little more than caffeine and flavouring. For men who train consistently and want to understand whether a pre-workout is genuinely useful, or which one is worth using, the answer depends on knowing what goes into...