Health & Beauty

The Radiotherapy and Oncology teams at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust are celebrating having successfully treated their 100th lung cancer patient using Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR).

SABR is a specialist technique that provides precise high dose radiotherapy treatment to patients with early peripheral lung cancer over a shorter period of time. In 2018,...

Living well is the key to farming well and leading farm safety charity, the Farm Safety Foundation, is highlighting the importance of farmers looking after their mental health in the second Mind Your Head week which takes place from 11-15 February 2019.

There are a number of mental health risk factors associated with agriculture. Farmers work long hours, often in isolation. They can be...

Stress and anxiety aren’t modern phenomena, but they do appear to be rising within the UK population - and especially within younger age bands. Whether it’s relationships, work, day-to-day stresses or an underlying psychological problem, most of us are familiar with the thoroughly unhelpful sensation of being anxious and stressed. Happily, though these feelings can produce a temperament of...

When seeking treatment for mental health issues, the chances are that you have only considered the two traditional methods of 1) talking therapy, and 2) medication.

These two methods are well known for good reason: they work for a lot of people. However, no one form of mental health treatment is a ‘cure-all’ and often, when different treatments work in tandem with one another, this is...