How going out for a walk could help you breathe more easily

9:56am Wednesday 17th December 2008

FOR people with chronic lung complaints, prescription drugs are not the only medicine.

Could healing hands really help your child?

8:59am Wednesday 10th December 2008

IF your children are cranky, suffering recurrent infections, or having trouble sleeping, the chances are you will not have considered osteopathy as a viable form of treatment.

Is homeopathy the way to beat winter colds and the flu?

9:33am Wednesday 3rd December 2008

THE middle of winter with its bitter cold snaps, long dark nights, festive fretfulness, nasty bugs and seasonal over-indulgence is not a healthy time of year for many of us.

If I knew at 15 what I do now, I'd never have lit that first cigarette

10:39am Wednesday 26th November 2008

IF Geoff Cumbley was 15 years old again with his first cigarette in his hand he knows one thing for certain already – he would never light it, let alone smoke it.

There is a lot of ignorance about mental illness – now I want to help end all that

9:42am Wednesday 19th November 2008

A MAN who has battled his own demons will help others conquer theirs as part of his work to raise awareness about mental illness. Oliver Orr has been admitted to hospital because of his bipolar disorder on no fewer than six occasions.

I’d be dead if I hadn’t paid for my own cancer drugs

9:39am Wednesday 12th November 2008

IT is traumatic enough to be told you have to fight terminal cancer without having to take on frustrating flaws in the healthcare system.

Thanks to programme I can now get on with enjoying my life again

8:50am Wednesday 5th November 2008

After suffering a heart attack and at risk of a stroke, Keith Bartlet took control and turned the tables around

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If I hadn’t had eye test when I did I could have lost my sight.....

9:37am Wednesday 29th October 2008

ASIMPLE eye test could be the difference between a lifetime of healthy sight and going blind.

How coloured lights help with breast scans

9:31am Wednesday 22nd October 2008

A VISIT to hospital for an intimate examination can be distressing, nervewracking and embarrassing for some patients. Now the use of coloured “MoodLight” during breast examinations at Worcester’s main hospital may be the latest way to, quite literally, banish patient blues.

The heart Ops that mean we can walk without pain again

9:21am Wednesday 15th October 2008

THE first heart procedure of its kind in Worcestershire has already changed the lives of angina patients and will soon help those with more serious cardiac complaints.