Health & Beauty

A new telephone clinic has been developed at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) to help patients who present at their GPs with breast pain.

Breast pain is the most common breast-related complaint in primary care and approximately 70% of females will experience breast pain at some point in their lives. Patients can experience breast pain for several reasons, but breast pain...

With skin cancer in the Southwest region on the rise University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) has teamed up with local MP Luke Pollard to talk about his skin cancer diagnosis and treatment, and to raise awareness about prevention and symptoms.

Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world and it can come in several forms. These include basal cell carcinoma, squamous...

Chronic pelvic pain can occur frequently in six months or more. The cause of this pain can be issues in the pelvic bone or any nonreproductive organ, infection, etc. Women usually experience this when any of their reproductive organs are affected. These include the cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, etc. No matter who it is, one must go for a diagnosis for proper treatment. A doctor...

There’s no getting around it. We love the giant ball of blazing gas in the sky. We really do. The second we see it, our brain tells our body to run to the nearest beer garden, stand with a cold beer in our hand, and say sentences like: “Well, this is the life”, or “It’s like being in Spain”, or “the Sun’s hot today”. However, when it comes to protecting ourselves from that same cosmic heat...