Health & Wellbeing

Royal Philips have announced that it has entered into a multi-year development agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. (Janssen). The collaboration aims to develop a new handheld blood test to provide doctors with a novel tool to improve the care of patients with neuropsychiatric disorders.

Can driving a diesel-powered car be more anti-social than smoking cigarettes? Members of the new Quit Club, set up to support businesses in kicking the diesel habit, might well say yes.

McLaren Applied Technologies and the University of Oxford have announced a new partnership that aims to improve the efficiency of patient care and optimise the treatment journey for serious conditions.

An international panel of global health experts will converge on the Royal Society of Medicine on Tuesday 28 April for the Society's flagship Global Surgery conference which will address the role of high income countries in delivering safe, affordable and equitable care worldwide.

The Birmingham office of global professional services firm, KPMG, has announced its staff will be supporting Cure Leukaemia in 2015.

A teenager suffering from Lupus is planning a charity skydive in order to raise awareness of the disease.

The launch of the SERV (Kent) Blood Bike new Headquarters was officially opened by four times and current British Superbike Champion Shane “Shakey” Byrne on behalf of John Surtees OBE and The Henry Surtees Foundation.

Wales' new 'flying' doctors will travel to the scene of emergencies in the most advanced vehicles seen anywhere in the world, Deputy Health Minister Vaughan Gething has announced.

Salford is set to be at the forefront of a national health revolution that will bring home care, mental health and community nursing, hospital and out-of-hospital services together, ushering in a new era of joined-up care.

As World Oral Health Day 2015 approaches countries worldwide are preparing to celebrate in their own way. The theme is 'Smile for life'. 

Seven partners from the Birmingham office of legal firm Pinsent Masons, including office Head Greg Lowson, are in training to take part in London 2 Paris: Inspiring the Revolution to raise money for Cure Leukaemia.

With the arrival of World Glaucoma Week (8-15 March 2015), Vision Express is highlighting the importance of having regular eye tests, as the only proven method to detect the sight-threatening condition.

A Leeds woman has celebrated her new life and nine-stone weight loss achievement after bariatric surgery by fulfilling a long-term ambition to perform a tandem skydive.

The biggest solar eclipse for 16 years will block out as much as 90% of the sunlight across parts of the UK later this month.

Asthma UK is warning people with asthma in the UK that they are now at increased risk of having a potentially life threatening asthma attack as early tree pollen begins to rise, causing  winter hay fever. 

In 2003, former England, Crystal Palace and Wolverhampton Wanderers footballer, Geoff Thomas, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia and given less than three months to live - since then, he has worked tirelessly to raise money for treatment, research and awareness. But this year is different.