Heart Month facts

Lisa Bratt 8 February, 2017

Your heart is an amazing muscle – it generates enough energy to power a truck for 20 miles! Know your heart and look after it #heartmonth

News health, heart

This week we’re focusing on eye health. Many of us spend long periods of our working day in front of a computer screen, so we’ve been thinking about the effect this has on our eyes and our health in general. This article focuses on how we can help to avoid future eye problems with some brilliant tips, like the 20/20/20 rule – take a look!

#eyehealth #nostrain

HIV Vaccines – Insights into a Scientist’s Mind

Aisleen Peterson 18 May, 2017

There is currently no vaccine available that can prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Why do scientists believe that an effective and safe HIV vaccine can teach the immune system how to fight HIV? I had a closer look at their latest research of HIV vaccines.

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM HIV VACCINES & THE IMMUNE SYSTEM THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIV VACCINES

World Kidney Day

Gaurav Kumar 9 March, 2017

#WorldKidneyDay 2017 is focusing on how #Obesity can increase the chance of developing #KidneyDisease. “Obesity may lead to CKD both indirectly by increasing type 2 diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, and also by causing direct kidney damage by increasing the workload of the kidneys and other mechanisms.”

Find out more about the links between kidney disease and obesity >>