We The Goalkeepers

‘We The Goalkeepers’ focuses on 7 young Goalkeepers from around the world and the inspirational work that they’re doing around the world to achieve the Global Goals. Narrated by the spoken word poet and youth activist, Aranya Johar, who wrote the poem especially for the film. Goalkeepers featured: Trisha Shetty Aranya Johar Wangchuk Rapten Brian […]

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Not just what you eat but when you eat

Not just what you eat but when you eat influences body weight. Some of the recent science relating to this topic are being explored on 12th November, 2018 at The Royal Society of Medicine: Chrono-Nutrition-circadian clocks, mealtimes and metabolic disorders meeting.  When you wake up in the morning, do you think about what to eat for breakfast […]

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Aretha Franklin – her neuroendocrine cancer

As a star-studded crowd in Detroit wished a final farewell to Aretha Franklin the Queen of Soul, a relatively unheard-of group of patients around the world reflected on the suffering they had shared with her: neuroendocrine cancer. For the last seven years of her life, Aretha Franklin was being treated for a type of ‘pancreatic […]

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Launch of Cairn Youth Network

Last week, a group of prestigious speakers, mental health experts, campaigners and young people took part in a rewarding day-long workshop at the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster to mark the launch of the Cairn Youth Network. Delegates discussed the issue of coercive control, and ways to combat it. This is the […]

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Why trying to be happy all the time is making us ill

Why trying to be happy all the time is making us ill. Priory consultant psychiatrist Dr Paul McLaren, medical director of Priory’s Hayes Grove Hospital in Kent and its Wellbeing Centres in London, says: “In recent years, there has been a shift within society whereby happiness is valued above everything else. Across Instagram and social media, […]

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Blue-green algae can be fatal to your dog

Environmental Health often place blue green algae warnings around lakes, ponds and lochs. This warns members of the public not to enter the water, or let their dogs swim in or drink from it. Why? Because this common problem can be fatal to your dog in as little as 15 minutes. Where you find it: […]

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Take your places for the Heart Rhythm Congress

The annual Heart Rhythm Congress, which takes place this year between 7-10 October at the ICC in Birmingham, is the largest gathering of arrhythmia specialists and patients of its kind in the UK with over 3000 delegates, exhibitors and patient visitors. Organised by the Arrhythmia Alliance, an umbrella charity that include STARS which celebrates its […]

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One Young World Summit to address sexual violence

Actor & Campaigner Terry Crews to address sexual violence at One Young World’s 2018 Summit in October. #OYW2018 The former NFL star’s bravery in testifying before a Senate committee about his experience of being sexually assaulted at a Hollywood party has shaped a national debate in America on giving greater rights to survivors of such […]

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British stillbirth rates remain high

Britain has a higher rate of stillbirth and neonatal death than many other countries in Europe – in 2016 one in every 139 births ended in stillbirth or neonatal death. The grief and devastation that bereaved parents feel is often compounded by the fact that they never realised a baby could die in modern-day Britain. […]

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