Influenza and Flu-like Illness

Many viruses can cause a flu-like illness. There is usually a seasonal outbreak of flu (influenza) in the UK each winter. Flu-like illnesses typically cause a high temperature (fever), aches and pains in muscles and joints, a cough and various other symptoms. Most...

What Everyone Should Know about Shingles Vaccine

One of the Recommended Vaccines by Disease Your risk of shingles and post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) increases as you get older. CDC recommends that people 60 years old and older get shingles vaccine to prevent shingles and PHN. Shingles vaccine has been used since...

JOIN OUR NATION OF LIFESAVERS

A cardiac arrest can happen anywhere at any time, and bystanders must be able to act fast to make the difference between life and death. Join the Nation of Lifesavers and push up the survival rates amongst the people you work with. Train your...

Tobacco firms lose plain packaging appeal

Three tobacco companies have lost their appeal against the government’s plain packaging rules for cigarettes packs. The case, brought by British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International, comes after a challenge against the new rules was...