Time to talk about cervical screening
Cervical Cancer Prevention Week: 17-23rd January 2022. This year, Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, the UK’s leading cervical cancer charity, is encouraging everyone to get involved in Cervical Cancer Prevention Week by sharing tips, facts and stories about cervical screening. Cervical screening, or smear tests, can save lives by stopping cervical...
Lee Noble: Helping 100
Following his death in March 2021 after a seven-year fight with leukaemia, the family of Barnsley boxer, Lee Noble, are raising money for bone marrow drills.
You and Your Health: High blood pressure and cholesterol
Knowing your blood pressure and cholesterol readings could reduce your risk of developing a form of cardiovascular disease such as a stroke, heart attack, or peripheral arterial disease.
You and Your Health: Fibromyalgia
What is fibromyalgia and how does it affect people? Andrew Watson of Goodmeasure Pharmacy, Rotherham looks into the hidden illness.
You and Your Health: Food allergies vs intolerance
A fifth of adults in the UK experience a reaction to food such as an allergy or intolerance. But what is the difference?
Living with type 1 diabetes
A diagnosis of type 1 diabetes can be life-changing for families, but one Rotherham teenager won’t let her condition stand in the way of life.
You and Your Health: Anxiety
Everyone will have experienced anxiety at some point in their lives. Remember that feeling of unease, worry or fear before a job interview, your driving test, or waiting for medical results? Those feelings that makes your heart beat a little faster, your palms sweat more or your stomach flutter with...
Bowel Cancer Awareness
In memory of her husband, Simon, who passed away aged 55 from advanced bowel cancer, Sarah Cooper shares their story to help raise awareness.
Be Diabetes Aware Rotherham
In Rotherham, the Be Diabetes Aware project is helping to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of Type 2 diabetes and the help available locally.
You and Your Health: Spring Clean the Medicine Cabinet
When was the last time you cleaned out your medicine cabinet? Now is the perfect time to assess and restock your self-help supplies to help spruce up your health routine for 2020.
