Health & Wellbeing

Colleagues at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) can now add ‘national health heroes’ to their title, after scooping a digital innovation award for transforming how quickly new staff are recruited.

Paul Barnett, a 47-year-old from Birmingham donates plasma regularly in honour of his three-year-old granddaughter who made a full recovery after a Kawasaki disease diagnosis.

Qualifyze, already the global leader in third-party audit services for the pharmaceutical industry, announces the launch of Quality Insights Platform, an AI-powered platform that transforms the world's largest pharmaceutical audit database into a strategic risk management tool.

Zulal Wellness Resort by Chiva-Som, the Middle East’s first and largest full-immersion wellness resort and the world’s first contemporary showcase of Traditional Arabic and Islamic Medicine (TAIM), invites guests to discover a millennium of holistic wellbeing with its ‘Wellness Plus’ offer.*

SpringWorks Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SWTX), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on severe rare diseases and cancer, have announced that the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion recommending the granting of a conditional marketing authorization for mirdametinib, a MEK inhibitor, for the treatment of symptomatic, inoperable plexiform neurofibromas (PN) in paediatric and adult patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) aged 2 years and above.

Pregnant women and new mothers are being asked to complete a short survey to share their views on the whooping cough vaccine.

At 82, former U.S. President Joe Biden faces one of the most challenging battles of his life: an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has already spread to his bones.

A new NHS diagnostic centre located in Chelmsley Wood Shopping Centre is set to significantly reduce waiting lists and enable earlier diagnosis and treatment for patients in the West Midlands.

Just ten months ago, Elan Clayton stood at the finish line of Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life with tears in his eyes, unsure if he’d live to see another day.

On Friday 23rd May staff and residents at Iverley View Care Home in Stourbridge will be dusting off their dancing shoes, leg warmers and glowsticks for the launch of their new Dementia Disco initiative which will take place very aptly during Dementia Action Week.

A Caerphilly-based walking group for over-60s has been recognised for its commitment to outdoor activity and personal development after being presented with the prestigious National Outdoor Discovery Award during a celebration at Cwmcarn Fforest Drive.

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity has launched a competition for its Bike4Life Ride Out & Festival event where one lucky ticket holder can win a cap signed by MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi.

A West Midlands lady with a mild learning disability is reaping the rewards of a new AI-powered, smart fitness platform called EGYM*.

Today (Monday 5 May) marks the start of Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week – an annual campaign to encourage people to talk about their mental health before, during and after pregnancy.

Hotpod Yoga Birmingham is supporting CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) – the suicide prevention charity that offers invaluable mental health support and services - with a series of fundraising activities at its city center -based studio during Mental Health Awareness Week (May 12-18).

After more than a decade of living with pain and complications from uterine fibroids, a Caribbean woman has found relief through robotic-assisted surgery at Health City Cayman Islands.