Health

Health bosses are setting up a pioneering treatment centre for male cancers in a bid to improve survival rates.

A Chapeltown couple are getting ready to sizzle sausages on a grand scale for the charity that supports their nine-year-old granddaughter.

I proudly remember the time that I discovered how a healthy lifestyle and diet could help me to become both physically and mentally well.

I am calling for Sheffield school to add one more item to their invigilation kits this exam season.

Calling all people whose stay in hospital was made much more bearable by a kind and helpful member of staff, who went out of their way to help you feel comfortable.

Only one person in the whole of Yorkshire and the Humber was fined in the first two years after it became illegal to smoke in cars carrying a child, a new analysis has found.

More than one million health workers are to receive a pay rise worth 6.5% for most staff over the next three years, after the deal was accepted by those ranging from nurses to cleaners.

A coroner has called for lessons to be learned after a woman died following surgery at Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital.

'Snapchat pills' have caused concern across the UK after they were linked to deaths at a music festival.

Health bosses have warned of their concerns over a shortage of experts to carry out mammography tests in Doncaster's hospitals.

Smokefree Sheffield marked World No Tobacco Day with a string of new campaigns to reduce tobacco use in Sheffield.

A group of brave Sheffield folk recently abseiled down Sheffield Hallam University’s Owen Building to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy UK. Together the group of 23 raised a total of £6,837 – enough to fund over a month’s worth of research into devastating muscle wasting conditions.

Most of the participants had a friend or family member with muscular dystrophy.

Mum Alex Ashurst had travelled from Leeds to take part, saying: “Euan is my 9-year-old middle son who despite having Duchenne muscular dystrophy has an incredible zest for life. Euan would love to abseil but due to how weak his muscles are he can’t, so I’m doing it for him.” Donations are still welcome text ‘SHEF55’ and an amount to 70070.

A Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire health trust has adopted the motor neurone disease (MND) Charter in support of local people living with this terminal disease and their carers.

It’s Volunteers’ Week, a great annual opportunity to formally thank those unsung heroes who help to make Doncaster a better place by freely giving up their own time to help others.