A Bloxwich couple whose baby daughter was stillborn have been fundraising to help others trying to cope in similar sad circumstances. Aimee Llewellyn and Lee Warren lost their daughter Skyla on 5 October 2018. They were supported at Walsall Manor Hospital by midwife Keira Cockerton, who has since taken on […]

Walsall Medical Director Dr Matthew Lewis will soon be leaving the Black Country behind to tackle this year’s Great North Run in Newcastle. And he will be raising money for Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s charity Well Wishers when he tackles the 13.1 mile course on Sunday 8 September. Matthew, who […]

A new service supporting vulnerable children in the borough has been officially launched by the Mayor of Dudley. Councillor David Stanley was on hand to cut the ribbon at Dudley Lighthouse Links, which is based in Stourbridge Road, Dudley. Left to Right – Faiza Nasir, Clinical Lead Psychology, Maureen Moss, […]

A project to improve the health and wellbeing of South Asian women in Wednesbury has been given a £4,800 boost by Sandwell Council. The council has awarded Breakthru CIC’s Aman Group a town grant to help it to put on sessions for 150 South Asian women aged 40 to 90. The […]

Minister for Health Simon Harris TD launched two new National Clinical Guidelines to help healthcare professionals with the diagnosis, staging and treatment of patients with oesophageal or oesophagogastric junction cancer and the diagnosis and staging of patients with ovarian cancer. The guidelines were developed by multidisciplinary groups supported by the […]

Nicola Wenlock’s days tend to be full of meetings and report writing but she swapped this for a chat over nappies, birth plans and breastfeeding with mums as she went back on to the maternity ward for the day. Nicola began her NHS career in 1989 as a student nurse  […]

A new way of detecting rheumatoid arthritis using infrared light could offer an objective way of diagnosing the disease and monitoring treatment effectiveness, a University of Birmingham study shows.  The rapid, non-invasive technique could help clinicians diagnose the disease earlier, and assess how effectively the selected treatment is controlling the […]

Shobna Gulati has spoken out about her own family’s experience of dementia to encourage more open discussion of the condition in South Asian communities. The actress has shared her story to launch a new campaign from Alzheimer’s Research UK, which aims to help people understand what dementia is and how it affects […]

Immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab (also known as Keytruda) used with chemotherapy drugs carboplatin and paclitaxel will now be an option for adults with squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) which has spread to other parts of the body and who haven’t had any previous treatments. Around 7,500 people in England are diagnosed […]

More than six million illegal cigarettes and 350kg of hand rolling tobacco were seized last year by local authority trading standards services across the West Midlands region. Officers point out that the big successes at finding illegal sales of tobacco were achieved despite ingenious efforts to hide them. They point […]