On Monday 20 September at 1pm, people living with the disease myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome or CFS) and their supporters will descend on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE’s) headquarters in Stratford, London. It will be the first-time people with ME...
With over 58,000 military veterans in Dorset, Dorset Council is reminding current and former members of the Armed Forces, and their families, that support is available for them.
Whether they served in Afghanistan, or in other conflicts, news of the withdrawal of military forces has significantly impacted on the wellbeing...
Did you know that half of all strokes and heart attacks are the result of high blood pressure? Or that 1-in-3 adults in the UK have high blood pressure without realising it?
Know Your Numbers Week is run by Blood Pressure UK (September 6-12th) to encourage people to get their blood pressure checked and to know their...
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In some of these blogs I have been trying to gently highlight what should be a very obvious fact: that “the science” we are being constantly told to follow is not quite as scientific as is being claimed.
That is inevitable in the context of a new virus about which...
Officers investigating a fatal road traffic collision in West Dorset are appealing for witnesses or anyone with relevant dashcam footage to come forward.
Dorset Police received a report at 9.06pm on Monday 6 September 2021 of a single vehicle collision involving a yellow Renault tractor, which was equipped with a...
Ministers are optimistic that COVID-19 vaccines will be offered to all 12 to 15-year-olds despite advisers failing to recommend it.
The Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said on Friday that, while it would widen the programme to include more children in that age group with health conditions, it...
Officers investigating a collision in Dorchester involving a pedestrian and a lorry are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
Dorset Police was called at 9.22am on Tuesday 31 August 2021 to reports of an injury collision in Weymouth Avenue near to Tesco involving a pedestrian who was directing a heavy...
More than half of British adults cannot identify any symptom of blood cancer, a survey has suggested, as a charity warned some of the signs could be mistaken for COVID-19.
The percentage of people saying they did not know any symptoms of the third biggest cancer killer in the UK has risen...
Leaver after leaver promised no disruptions. No empty shelves. And many believed them whilst many did not. The latter are now occupying the moral and intellectual high ground and the Tory Brexit reaps its destructive nature. In other hands it could have been relatively smooth. In the hands of...
