Health

This week's healthy tip from Heart Research UKSunshine for a healthy heart

Friday, March 12, 2010

WITH the sun out for longer these days, now's the perfect time to get outdoors and top up your vitamin D. Around 90% of our vitamin D is made under the skin when we're exposed to direct sunlight and two in 10 adults in the UK are thought to be vitamin D deficient – bad...


This week's healthy tip from Heart Research UKGo fishy for a healthy heart

Friday, March 12, 2010

WHEN thinking about fish, white fish like cod and haddock from our local chippie often springs to mind. But did you know that another type of fish,...



Can stress make you fat around the middle?

Friday, March 12, 2010

DO you find no matter what you do that you just can't budge that fat around the middle? Shaftesbury-based nutritional therapist Fiona Waring believes...



Redevelopment of Salisbury's A&E

Friday, March 05, 2010

MAJOR redevelopment is taking place at the Accident and Emergency department at Salisbury District Hospital until December following the relocation of...



Somerset people with chronic lung disease encouraged to give their views

Friday, March 05, 2010

SOMERSET people with chronic lung disease are being encouraged to have their say on how services could be more responsive and personal to their needs....



Dorset bowel cancer screening - patients urged to take simple test

Friday, February 26, 2010

BOWEL Cancer is the third most common cancer and the second highest cause of cancer related deaths in the UK (16,000 die each year). The Dorset bowel...



This week's healthy tip from Heart Research UKSaturated fat and your heart

Friday, February 26, 2010

WE'VE all heard how saturated fats are bad for us - but why? Saturated fats can increase the levels of bad cholesterol in our blood, leading to...



Have your say on stroke services

Saturday, February 20, 2010

OVER the coming months, The Dorset Stroke Network Improvement Team will be holding patient and public involvement events to help improve community...



Design eye-catching artwork and help fight infections

Saturday, February 20, 2010

PUT your artistic skills to the test by designing some eye-catching artwork to highlight the alcohol gel dispensers at entrances to wards and...



New man at the top for Dorset Community Health Services

Tim Archer

Friday, February 12, 2010

TIM Archer has been appointed chief operating officer of Dorset Community Health Services. Tim is currently director of delivery and performance/execu...



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