A welcome £1.9m is set to come to Kent County Council (KCC) to help residents who smoke kick the killer habit after councillors greenlighted a central government grant.
Alcohol and tobacco
A ban on disposable vapes, currently being considered by the UK Government, would affect one in seven young adults (aged 18-24) in Great Britain and one in 20 adults overall, according to a new study...
Alcohol and tobacco
An exciting study from Public Health Scotland (PHS), in collaboration with the Universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh, shows that no cervical cancer cases have been detected in fully vaccinated...
Patient education
Health experts are encouraging young people to ensure they get the HPV vaccine, as statistics reveal that approximately one-in-six girls and one-in-five boys in England remain unvaccinated by the time...
Children's dentistry
Andrea Leadsom, under-secretary of state for health and social care, was pressed by MPs on January 23, 2024, about the progress of recovery plans for NHS dental services.
Communication
Community Dental Services (CDS) has been piloting a treatment programme for people with severe multiple disadvantages (SMD) and/or homelessness. The pilot is a partnership between CDS and the East...
Volunteering
The Guinness Six Nations will feature instrumented mouthguard technology, with players across all six unions able to use custom-fitted mouthguards designed to deliver in-game alerts as an indication...
Patient education
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has given the green light on funding for its Phoenix Team, a maternity tobacco-dependence treatment service, making it a permanent fixture in the Trust’s...
Children's dentistry
The British Dental Association (BDA) has greeted the Daily Mirror’s launch of a national campaign to save NHS dentistry.
Patient education
Analysis of trial data on pregnant smokers, led by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, found that the regular use of nicotine replacement products during pregnancy is not associated with...
Special care dentistry
A Liberal Democrat Freedom of Information request has found that there have been 218,005 admissions to hospital for rotting teeth, including more than 100,000 child admissions, since 2018.
Children's dentistry
A new study has identified a protein that nicotine-free vape fluid increases in the lung, causing damage including oxidative stress, inflammation and breakdown of the blood vessels.
Alcohol and tobacco