Health & Wellbeing

With 55% of gym-goers experiencing a price increase in gym membership over the past two years, research shows that over a third of Brits have cancelled their gym membership as a result.

A paramedic who witnessed the impact of mental health issues first-hand on the NHS front line is supporting a new initiative which aims to get men’s wellbeing on track through social running.

A new initiative has been launched to improve veterans’ access to healthcare services, after new data found that thousands of former armed services personnel in the West Midlands may be silently struggling with their health.

Around 6% of people with learning difficulties are in paid employment, despite 69% of them wanting to work.

In celebration of World Oral Health Day, FDI World Dental Federation debuts an impactful video message uniting voices from diverse sectors, advocating for collective efforts to improve oral health worldwide.

Organisations in Birmingham are being urged to bid for new funding to launch innovative community projects that will improve health and care for residents across the city.

Everyone deserves expert care and support at the end of life, which is why Marie Curie is calling on everyone across the West Midlands to go yellow and fundraise in wonderful and wacky ways this March, to support its Great Daffodil Appeal.

“It was like joining a club I’d never heard about, and one with a lifetime’s membership.”

Motorcycle enthusiasts are being given the chance to lead more than 3,500 bikes in one of the biggest and most popular biker events in the region.

The pharmaceutical company medac, founded in Germany in 1970, has evolved into an internationally renowned corporate group with two contract development and manufacturing organizations in Europe and a distribution to 91 countries.

The charity Diabetes UK is providing support and advice for people in the Muslim community who live with diabetes, to help them stay healthy during Ramadan.

A new study from the University of Warwick exposes the stark disparities within society that have long supressed the voices of marginalised women dealing with postnatal depression.

The British Dental Association has said Government must wake up to the crisis in NHS dentistry, following damning new analysis from the HSJ showing nearly a third of local dental budgets are going unspent in some areas of England.

Councillors have approved an increase in the amount the City of Wolverhampton Council pays to adult social care providers of between 7.45% and 9.79% in the next financial year.

Tagomics, developers of a cutting-edge platform for comprehensive disease insight and diagnosis, have just announced a £6.7m funding round.

Negotiations have resumed this week at the World Health Organisation (WHO) on a “pandemic treaty”, a legally binding instrument that aims to strengthen the WHO’s role in preventing, preparing for, and responding to future pandemics.