Health

IT’S SEXUAL HEALTH Awareness Week. Tower Hamlets Council is marking the week by holding an event outside the Town Hall from 10.30am to 4pm on Thursday, 17th September. There will be a testing van outside the Town Hall and you ...

DEPUTY MAYOR Cllr Maium Talukdar took time out of his busy schedule last Saturday to visit a health fair in Launch Street on the Isle of Dogs last Thursday, 10th September. And he joined in what was going on – ...

WE ALL fear falling ill – especially with those serious conditions such as a heart attack, a stroke or diabetes. However, there are ways to help yourself avoid the worst problems – by “knowing your numbers”. These serious conditions don’t ...

IT’S CONGRATULATIONS to Providence Row Outreach Psychotherapy Service’s “A Place Within”, which is one of the three winners of the London Homelessness Awards for 2026. The London Homelessness Awards are sponsored by the London Homelessness Foundation, London Housing Directors, the ...

WHAT is going on at the Be Well Centres in Tower Hamlets? Management of the leisure centres came in-house in 2024, and the service has certainly improved. But Unite says their members’ jobs are not being well at all. Unite, ...

FOLLOWING the news that 500 children have died from measles in Bangladesh is the news that there have been 763 cases in England so far this year. There were only 959 cases in the whole of 2025, so 2026 will ...

A MEASLES outbreak which has been running through Bangladesh since March has already killed at least 500 children – despite government efforts to treat those infected and curb the spread of the virus. Measures taken by the Government to curb ...

Hafsa Noor From a history of tragedy to fresh outbreaks, ebola once again alarms the world As the world continues to recover from years of devastating pandemics and infectious disease outbreaks, the re-emergence of the ebola virus in parts of ...

AS LABOUR MPs look for an alternative Leader, there are concerns that they may pick Wes Streeting, MP for Ilford North and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Sadly for Labour, Streeting would be no improvement on Starmer. ...

AN ASTONISHING one in ten women in the UK suffer from “endometriosis” – a condition which sees cells like those which line the uterus grow in the pelvic region, outside the womb, or elsewhere in the body. The condition is ...