Football injuries
With World Cup fever firmly upon us, everyone is looking forward to watching the action on the pitch. Yet with UK Premier League…
Heart & Lung
Breathe Easy Week
Breathe Easy Week is the annual awareness event, focusing on lung health. It takes place from 18 - 24 June 2018. Each year,…
Bike week is here!
Bike Week, delivered by Cycling UK, is an annual opportunity to promote cycling and show how cycling can easily be…
Heart risk of high protein diets
For middle-aged men, eating higher amounts of protein was associated with a slightly elevated risk for heart failure than those…
Intensity better than counting steps
We are all now encouraged to count our steps - 10,000 a day being the recommended goal - but health…
Take Fainting to Heart
Our message this World Heart Rhythm Week (4-10 June) is Take Fainting to Heart – there is no such thing…
Insomnia likely effect of stroke
Stroke patients experience sustained problems with insomnia potentially reducing their ability to relearn key skills and putting them at increased…
Smoking directly damages muscles
Not only is smoking bad for your lungs, but new research shows that components in cigarette smoke directly damages your…
Hands as diagnostic tools
Human hands are vastly more sophisticated than is necessary for survival. Each has 27 bones and is controlled by 35…
Better way to deliver cardiac stem cell treatment
New research published in The Journal of Physiology has indicated a potential new stem cell treatment following a heart attack,…