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For many people, the lifting of lockdown restrictions will bring back opportunities missed like seeing friends, playing group sports, visiting family members in person or getting back into the office.
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Coronavirus and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are two kinds of respiratory illnesses that have some similar symptoms.
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As lockdown restrictions begin to ease, you may not be feeling your best after a year of isolation. Here are some tips to help you bounce back.
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Find out when, and how, to check your moles for skin cancer even if you’re not going abroad this Summer
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The coronavirus brought swift public health and economic damages, but the mental toll from thousands of deaths, hundreds of newly unemployed people and forced isolation could have serious effects on mental health and loss of life to suicide.
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Back to ‘normal’ anxiety is best defined as experiencing fear or worry about the leaving of lockdown restrictions and returning to normal life. What are the key reasons that people may be experiencing this anxiety?
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Learn about behavioural epigenetics and how some simple changes could improve your life and reduce the risk of illness
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Want to improve your health? Need to lose weight? We help create plans for beginners, combining running and strength and flexibility workouts. Our goal is to help you find the habit of regular exercise in 12 weeks.
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Aortic dissection occurs when there is a partial tear in the aortic wall. This tear then spreads along the length of the aorta. This can rupture or interrupt the blood supply to limbs or vital organs. If the tear occurs in the first part of the aorta, in the front of the chest, it is called a type A dissection. If it occurs in the aorta in the back of the chest it is a type B dissection.
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In the first of a set of staff articles, our CEO, Pete, looks at his recent health journey.
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We’re raising awareness of National No Smoking Day and discussing how, and why, to quit smoking for good
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Find out how a virtual midwife can guide you through the Covid pandemic, and provide support throughout your pregnancy
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We explore which common bad habits you may need to evaluate during lockdown and why this matters
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Testing for COVID-19 has tremendous value when trying to contain the spread of the COVID virus. But the variety of testing approaches for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) available today can be somewhat confusing.
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For many of us, working from home has been our reality for close to a year now, and with it many positives but also negatives. If the WFH Slump is affecting you then we have some tips to help you to regain focus and banish any remote work related stresses.
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Report from the University of Cambridge uses digital tech to gauge world’s Covid state of mind
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Almost a year after COVID-19 was first seen in humans, vaccines to protect us from the virus are here. Scientists and researchers worked quickly and thoroughly to find effective, safe vaccines that could be given to the public in record time.
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This year we’re more conscious of our health than ever, so 2021 is the perfect time to try a blend of traditional and functional healthcare
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Same day virtual appointments and holistic healthcare are two ways that Vala are revolutionising GP appointments in 2021
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Stay active. Eat healthy. Keep out of the sun. We've all heard this important advice from experts for a long time. Now, researchers are uncovering new evidence that our lifestyle choices – the foods we eat, the chemicals we encounter, our exercise habits and even our social connections and emotional states – can measurably influence mortality risk at a genetic level.
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We are honoured to be announced as the winners of the Global Health and Pharmaceutical Awards, 'Best Emerging Telemedicine' platform, 2020. The awards celebrate the benchmark of achievement and best practice in the health space.
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I tried to contact my local GP after receiving abnormal blood test results but couldn’t reach them.
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Here we explore the similarities and differences between integrative and functional medicine.
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The rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus has been blamed for the introduction of strict tier four mixing rules for millions of people, harsher restrictions on mixing at Christmas in England, Scotland and Wales, and other countries placing the UK on a travel ban.
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During that period families will be able to form larger Christmas support bubbles of between up to three households. But what does this mean, and what are the risks?
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In 2020 the working practises of all industries shifted because of Covid-19. In some cases for the better, in some cases throwing the methods of work into complete chaos.
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We discuss the impact of sleep on your body and mind, with tips on how to get a better night’s rest
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Most of us contact our GP when something is wrong. That pain, cough, lump or bump that won’t go away or is affecting your daily life? Time to ring the doctor. But what if you could take a step back and speak to your GP before anything goes wrong?
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Taking a peek at the most Googled health-related questions from the last year gives us a window into the health questions of interest. So without further ado, here are each of these questions and some answers.
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From AI therapists to platforms that let you video-chat with a professional counsellor, these are the best apps to add to your mental health toolkit.
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We can’t say with any certainty what the future of COVID-19 is. But based on our experience with other infections, there is little reason to believe that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 will go away any time soon, even when vaccines become available. A more realistic scenario is that it will be added to the (large and growing) family of infectious diseases that are what is known as “endemic” in the human population.
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An online healthcare provider is calling for their industry to stop all advertising on Facebook and Instagram until they do more to protect the mental health of young people using their platforms and protect them from dangerous content.
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Learn everything you need to know about breast cancer in men, including the symptoms and treatment options available. In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2020.
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With Go Sober For October getting more publicity every year, we wanted to share with you some of the typical alcohol withdrawal symptoms and side effects you may experience when you give up the booze.
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Everyone feels sick sometimes, but in some circumstances, a person can feel sick all or most of the time. This feeling can refer to nausea, catching colds often, or being run-down.
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We know that coping with Cancer is challenging. Here are a few ways to manage the day-to-day impact.
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With the ongoing concerns regarding coronavirus (Covid-19), local lockdowns and recommendations for social distancing, the public are quickly having to adapt to new ways of supporting their day-to-day health issues.
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We're creating safe spaces to talk about our sexual health. Here are our top tips and pieces of advice.
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Spend at least five minutes a day, every single day, hanging out with them and doing whatever they want.
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We discuss common back to COVID-19 school health concerns you may experience as a parent, teacher or carer and how best to tackle them.
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While most people who catch COVID-19 have a relatively straightforward recovery, there is a group of people who are struggling with the long-term side-effects of the disease.
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Will there be a second wave? There are very few experts that are willing to make a firm prediction. One of the most significant issues is how we're measuring the prevalence of COVID-19 – There isn't a single perfect statistic available. In fact, there are many official data-sources that seem to conflict.
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As many employees return to work after lockdown, furlough or redundancy, we explore how back to work healthcare is critical to wellbeing
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Online physiotherapy is ideal if you need flexible physiotherapy sessions that can fit around your schedule.
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How can I protect myself and others at a protest?
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Update on Antibody Testing
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The long-term effects of Covid-19 will be psychological, physiological - and inescapable. In this blog we explore what to expect.
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We discover how air pollution affects your long term health and how this is being impacted by COVID-19
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Stories from the middle of Covid, by people fighting back
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We explore how modern technology can be a help, and a hindrance, when fighting a global pandemic.
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Is there anything we can do to give our bodies the best chance of fighting back against Coronavirus?
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Your self-isolation mental health is one thing you can control during the Coronavirus outbreak. Maintain your health, wellbeing & sanity whilst in the house.
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What is Functional Medicine? In this blog we’ll explore this increasingly popular medical approach. Understand what it is and how it could benefit you.
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Keeping yourself safe.
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Artificial intelligence chatbots would help minimise exposure to coronavirus patients but they're a long way off from being useful
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Vala partners with home-test kit provider ‘LetsGetChecked’, offering you a 20% discount on all home testing kits.
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Future care planning is a process of setting an ambition for how you’d like to be treated if you were to become seriously ill. But, setting your wishes for the future can be enormously empowering, even if you’re young or in good health.
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When you book an STI appointment online it is quick, easy and hassle-free. Find out how it works and why on-demand healthcare is so popular in the UK.
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In this blog we will look at recent technology trends and analyse how they could impact healthcare in 2020. They will blow your mind!
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2019, the year healthcare went Unlimited.
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The future of healthcare is being shaped by technological advances. The most successful new technologies are those that have been designed with people in mind.
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Skip the queues and get A GP Appointment over Christmas with the nifty online GP service from Vala. From as little as £15 per month.
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