Health

Muhammad Hamza The Leftley Sports Club in Barking & Dagenham have teamed up with a local women’s empowerment and education group to deliver a community Dementia awareness programme. The session at the Hedgecock Community Centre was chaired and hosted by ...

Date: Sun 8 Dec 2019 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location: Apex Primary School, IG1 3BG Come and attend an exciting Winter Fair for the whole family.  The community event will include BBQ food, hot drinks, stalls and great company.  ...

THE HIGH COURT has ruled that the parents of five year old Tafida Raqeeb can take their daughter to Italy to receive further medical treatment. The ruling came after medics at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, had informed the parents ...

THE UK HAS lost its “virus free” status on measles, after 231 cases were recorded in the first three months of 2019. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has noticed and promised to take steps to protect the population from this serious ...

“IT’S TOO LITTLE, too late” claim East London health campaigners in response to Boris Johnson’s cash handout to the NHS. With the Labour Party revealing doubts that the funding includes any new money, health activists say that in any event, ...

LONDON’S AIR AMBULANCE came in to land at West Ham’s Rush Green training ground earlier this week – to celebrate the Ambulance’s 30th anniversary. The Air Ambulance began its work in 1989. It operates from 8am to sunset every day ...

FOR ELEVEN YEARS, girls have been vaccinated routinely against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). The vaccinations are offered in the first year of secondary school. Now boys will also be offered the virus in secondary schools, starting this autumn. HPV can ...

IT IS JUST OVER 70 years since the National Health Service (NHS) was established in the UK. It clung to one basic principle: everyone pays in according to their income; everyone receives healthcare according to their need. In recent years ...

TWO CHILDREN have lost their mother after a series of medics failed to spot that she had a life-threatening condition – sepsis. The terrible story was revealed at an inquest into the death of Shahida Begum, which happened last July. ...

ASICS and Virgin Sport are proud to announce that the inaugural ASICS London 10K, formerly the British 10K, will take to the streets of London this summer. The fast-paced, flat 10km route takes runners on a tour through the best ...