Health

A LEADING doctor has calculated that the increase in life expectancy – which the UK has experienced for 100 years – has begun to slow. The rate of increase has nearly halved since 2010, and government austerity policies may be ...

PUPILS AT Manorfield primary school in Tower Hamlets launched their edible playground last week. No – they’re not down on their knees gnawing at the tarmac. The pupils are growing fruit and veg – and scoffing it when it’s ready for ...

THE NHS IS one of the first organisations to feel the cold wind of Brexit breezing through its corridors. Last July, 1,304 nurses from the EU registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) – the first, necessary, step towards ...

Emdad Rahman GOOD LIVING AND health was firmly on the agenda as the East End Health Network (EEHN) held a community health fair in partnership with the Idea Store in Whitechapel.  There were activities and information was provided on Healthwatch ...

LABOUR HAS promised to spend an extra £37 billion on the NHS if it forms a government on 9th June. The Tories have promised no extra funding and are relying on their record: oh dear. Labour says that £10 billion ...

HELP IS AT hand for Tower Hamlets residents who want to stop smoking over Ramadan. The Council began its intensive campaign at the end of last month, hoping to help tobacco users wean themselves off the habit before the holy ...

NHS ENGLAND Chief Executive Simon Stevens has announced that the NHS will allow the waiting time for some treatments to increase – in order to liberate vital funds for cancer treatment and Accident and Emergency (A&E) services. This is not ...

WORLD AUTISM Awareness Week runs from 27th March to 2nd April. Estimates suggest that some 1% of the population suffers from autism to some degree. It is thought that 2,300 adults live with autism in Tower Hamlets and the Council ...

THE NHS is still in crisis and Theresa May is still in denial. NHS professionals have been speaking out with one voice, clamouring for extra money, and opposition parties have piled on the pressure in the House of Commons in ...

ARE YOU LOOKING after your amygdala? No, we didn’t know we had one either. The amygdala is a small group of cells deep inside the medial temporal lobe (roughly, on the side of your head above the ear). The cells ...