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How Seasonal Weather in Devon Affects Your Skin Year Round

Residents of Devon are accustomed to dramatic shifts in weather across the calendar year. From brisk coastal winds in January to humid summer afternoons along the English Riviera, the county’s climate is rarely static. While these seasonal changes shape daily routines and tourism patterns, they...

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Plymouth Hospitals launches Mayflower Peer Support Group

The official launch of the Mayflower Peer Support Group took place this week.

The support service involves kidney patients helping other kidney patients who are facing similar situations. It aims to give short term practical, emotional and social support to people with chronic kidney disease, their families or carers, based on common experiences.

Peer supporters are patients...

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Healthy people wanted for dementia project

Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust's Neurology Research Team is now recruiting healthy individuals between 65 and 83 years of age to an exciting international dementia clinical research study.

The study, called TOMMORROW, aims to see if it is possible to predict if a person will develop memory problems based on a method that uses a person’s genetic status and age. It will also test the safety...

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Event for sarcoma patients a success

A health and wellbeing event for cancer patients, organised by the Sarcoma and Living with and Beyond Cancer Team at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, was deemed a “resounding success”.

The event, which was held in the Mustard Tree Macmillan Support Centre on Saturday 22 November, was attended by 43 patients and their relatives.

Liz Ridgway, the Sarcoma Specialist Nurse, who...

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Stay on track with Reebok's Christmas Survival Guide

As Christmas is fast approaching and the abundance of food near, Reebok’s Master Trainers have created a Christmas Survival Guide to help you stay on track of your fitness goals whilst still enjoying the fruits of the festive period.

Incorporate little exercises on a daily basis – they will add up!

Start the day balanced. When brushing your teeth stand on one leg to activate...

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Give the gift of blood this Christmas

This Christmas more than 200,000 blood donors are needed across the UK to give a very special gift and help hundreds of thousands of patients.

Across Devon there are 2,000 fewer donors now than in 2012, according to BBC Radio Devon.

Last year 1 in 5 blood donor appointments were missed over the festive period putting NHS Blood and Transplant’s critical operation under...

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Plymouth awarded £1.44m to improve adult health and social care services

Plymouth City Council, in a co-operative agreement with NHS NEW Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Plymouth Community Healthcare (CIC) have been awarded £1.44 million to help join up adult health and social care services across Plymouth.

Bringing health and social care services together will mean that more people can be supported to live independently at home, unnecessary...

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Obese are in denial about their weight

A MAJORITY of obese people in Britain would not describe themselves as “obese”, and many would not even describe themselves as “very overweight”, according to a Cancer Research UK study.

In one of the first studies of its kind to examine British perceptions of obesity, fewer than 10 per cent of those who are clinically obese accept they have a serious weight problem.

In a 2012...

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Time to take action on asthma in South West

More than six months after the National Review of Asthma Deaths highlighted the complacency about asthma care, research from Asthma UK published on Friday shows that almost 8 out of 10 people in the South West are still not receiving care that meets the most basic clinical standards (79%).1 This is despite the fact that good basic asthma care prevents life-threatening asthma attacks and...

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Historic cancer research partnership launched

Patients, carers, scientists, clinicians, supporters and charities from across the UK gathered on 20 November for the launch of an historic new partnership between the charity Brain Tumour Research and Plymouth University. Together they have established a new Research Centre of Excellence, which will focus on low grade brain tumours - some of the most overlooked forms of brain tumours....

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Raising awareness of the correct use of antibiotics

Members of our Infection Prevention and Control Team have designed a display board in Derriford Hospital to highlight to colleagues, patients and members of the public the importance of using antibiotics correctly.

The display board, on level 7 of Derriford Hospital, put together by Tash Tait of the Infection Prevention and Control Team, provides interesting facts on antibiotics, what...

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