Health & Beauty

Mouth Cancer Awareness Month happens in November every year and aims to raise awareness of mouth cancer by educating the public of the risk factors, signs and symptoms and the importance of early detection.

Over the last three days, Derriford Hospital has had a stand set up in the main concourse and has been manned from 10am-3pm every day.

Vera Mitchell, volunteer at Derriford...

Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, attended the Silver Star Diabetes Health Challenge, at the House of Commons last week. At the event Ms Seabeck took the quick and easy diabetes test to help raise awareness of the need for the public to test for the condition. Ms Seabeck met special guest Hugh Quarshie, who plays Dr. Ric Griffin in BBC’s Holby City and was joining in with raising...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has urged local authorities to tackle a growing crisis in the state of people’s teeth in disadvantaged areas of England.

Tooth decay and gum disease are the two most common, largely preventable dental problems. At risk are those who are among the most vulnerable in our society and who are dependent on others to care for them...

Sexual health doctors in Plymouth have been successful in securing more than £21,000 to launch a brand new service for home HIV testing.

Dr Rachel Challenor and Dr Zoe Warwick, Consultants in Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM), will use the money from NHS England’s Regional Innovation Fund, to run a trial over one to two years from the GU clinic at Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital. This is the...