Health & Wellbeing
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Looking after yourself in 2020
Leeds-based ‘White Rose Ball’ set to raise funds for MY Breast Cancer support group
Cancer support group Founder, Sara Williamson, 54, from Horbury, who was told she had a 40% chance of survival - with medical professionals stressing at the time that she would likely die of cancer or heart failure due to treatment within five years, is choosing to ‘celebrate life’, as almost
Bluewater issues Earth Day warning on plastic bottle tsunami
Water purification and beverage innovator Bluewater marked Earth Day 2024 sending out a message and a warning that planetary health and the wellbeing of every child, woman, and man faces an existential threat from the plastic tsunami now sweeping across oceans, rivers, lakes, forests, fields, and mountains.
“According to the
Law firm launches menopause mentors to support businesses
Despite being the fastest growing demographic in the workplace, menopausal women have become the forgotten workforce, with three-quarters (75%) facing daily challenges due to a lack of support from managers missing the vital signs, mistaking symptoms, and not providing flexibility according to a recent survey by employment law specialists Han
Yorkshire Business announced as finalist for Small Business Award
Cool Crutches & Walking Sticks based in Harrogate, Yorkshire has been chosen as a finalist for the Digital Star Award at this year’s Small Awards.
Now in its eighth year, The Small Awards is a nationwide search for the smallest and greatest firms in the UK, across all sectors.
Yorkshire care staff get 8% pay rise
Yorkshire social care employees are being given an 8% pay rise taking their pay to 14% above the living wage.
Staff at West Park Care are on permanent salaried employment, not - as is often the case - on zero-hours contracts, so the carers are being given the pay rise
Young Yorkshire athlete takes on world record attempt
Ellie Horrocks, a determined 19-year-old competitive athlete from Brighouse, is gearing up for a monumental challenge on World Health Day next month.
Ellie, who is well-known known for her remarkable athletic achievements, is attempting to break the world record for the most chest-to-floor burpees in 24 hours, all in support
Leeds’ Evolve Medical returns smiles to breast cancer survivors’ faces
A Leeds-based aesthetics clinic has helped to put smiles back on the faces of two breast cancer survivors by offering free medical tattooing to give them natural looking pigmentation following reconstruction.
Evolve Medical, in Pudsey has a team made up of qualified consultants, GPs, nurses and beauty therapists, headed up