According to a new survey commissioned by the Stroke Association, almost three quarters of UK Asians are unaware that their ethnicity puts them at a higher...
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14th Dec 2025 | Updated at 07:57am 14th Dec 2025
Your local pharmacist can help you stay healthy
- 12 Nov 2025
As part of the ‘Ask Your Pharmacist Week’, which encourages people to make better use of their local pharmacist – not just for prescriptions, but for advice, support, and everyday health concerns, Faruque Gani, a community pharmacist in London...
Unspoken pain: Why South Asian men struggle to seek help
- 06 Nov 2025
South Asian men are increasingly facing silent battles with their mental health, often shaped by deep-rooted cultural and societal expectations. From a young age, many are taught to be providers, problem-solvers, and emotional anchors; roles...
It is said that a GP surgery has been asked by the Home Office to reveal a patient's address in what health campaigners fear is an “escalation” of invasion into confidential records.
According to a new report, search engines like Google and Bing are more likely than any other source of information to provoke anxiety during pregnancy.
- 13 Apr 2018
Researchers have found that that bosses should let workers have lie-ins in order to stop them from having an early death.
Sugar tax has been introduced in the UK with the objective to incentivise sugar reductions in drinks. Henceforth, drinks with a sugar content of over 5g...
- 10 Apr 2018
Tens of thousands of allergy sufferers are at risk because of a shortage of the life-saving EpiPen jabs. Mylan, the Pennsylvania-based firm that manufacturers the device, has warned of global supply problems.
Succulent, juicy and pulpy are the words that come to mind when we think of an orange. We love eating one or two oranges a day most of the year, don't we? Plus, they're easily available and provide instant energy. Oranges have always been cherished...
- 10 Apr 2018
Painful finger-prick blood tests taken several times a day by millions of diabetics could become a thing of the past.
In the literate groups, one of the barriers to improved diabetes awareness was that healthcare information was general and not specific to their diet and...
Four of the UK's largest multiples have claimed that using pharmacy care plans to support patients with long-term health conditions could reduce the cost of healthcare by up to 21%.
