Health

This is the moment that a man was reunited with the match steward who saved his life after he suffered a cardiac arrest at a football match. David Ince, 67, from Haverhill in Suffolk, had heart problems during the Cambridge United v Rotherham United match in October. Play stopped while steward Paul Harrison administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and helped to …

Jonathan Coffey BBC Panorama BBC When it comes to the Lucy Letby case, there are two parallel universes. In one, the question of her guilt is settled. She is a monster who murdered seven babies and attempted to murder seven more while she was a nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016. In the other universe, …

New measures to make it easier for NHS employers in England to take on newly qualified nurses and midwives have been announced by the government. The move comes after warnings there are up to three times more graduates than vacancies in some areas of the health service. The aim is to free up trusts in England to recruit more easily …

Ruth Clegg Health and wellbeing reporter Getty Images Calm in a can. Relaxation after a few sips. That’s what some drinks companies are promising with beverages formulated specifically to help you chill out. Lucy and Serena swear by them. They’re good friends who, like many, are juggling careers, the chaos of having small children, trying to stay fit, and everything …

BBC Weather presenter Alexandra Humphreys explains the benefits of getting some rays. Source link

A person scoops French fries at a shop. — Unsplash An international team led by a Harvard University public health expert has found a shocking link between consuming chips regularly and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Seyed Mohammad Mousavi examined the link between potato consumption and the disease, analysing food questionnaires from 205,000 US health professionals collected every four years …

Do noise-cancelling headphones protect our hearing? Other Side of the Story spoke to Claire Benton, president of the British Academy of Audiology, to find out more abut noise-cancelling headphones. Claire explained that they can help protect people’s hearing as focusing on one sound with all others cancelled out, means it doesn’t need to be listened to at a loud level. …

It’s hard to tone your lower back muscles, but this handy exercise can help. Source link

Clara Bullock & Nicky Price BBC News, Gloucestershire Manpreet Pinder Manpreet Pinder volunteers as a breastfeeding peer supporter Two mums who struggled to breastfed their babies have said they would have struggled without the help of a peer support group. Manpreet Pinder, who has since trained as a volunteer breastfeeding peer supporter, and her sister, Sukhneet, said without the group …

BBC Tom Parker, 37, broke his leg in a fishing accident three miles off the Devon coast Tom Parker was working alone three miles (4.8km) off the Devon coast when his fishing boat hit a wave and lurched to one side. “I was pulling one of the ropes and I slipped and fell,” he says. “I had this really, really …