Pain Management – Dr Sheba Shah

What Does Research Say About Meditation & Reducing Pain? Introduction Starting from the Vedas (sacred text of the Hindus) of India and Nepal to the present day trendy yoga classes, meditation at its root has been viewed as a practice that promotes relaxation. Nonetheless, throughout history meditation has become a practice associated with negative connotations. …

Community Pharmacist – Hala Jawad

#Hellomyname is Hala Jawad I’m a pharmacist that graduated from the University of Brighton ,started my pre-registration in Community pharmacy and worked as a community pharmacist and as a GP practice pharmacist . Also , I’m On the panel of the World Health Innovation Summit #WHISLondon . My professional goals focus around patient care with …

Village Link Magazine

Village Link Magazine is Carlisle’s magazine success story. Launched with sister community magazines ‘The Stanwix Directory’ and ‘The Carleton Directory’ back in 2009, it was relaunched in March 2011 as the bi-monthly magazine Village Link. It now has a loyal, committed readership of 32,000+. The magazine has become very popular with its own brand of humour, and this …

Superhumans – Ishy Bruce

by Ishy Bruce I am of course talking about the Paralympic athletes who have been on our screens this past week. As someone who is generally interested in sport and sports psychology I have been watching with admiration and fascination for these amazing inspiring human beings. What I’m most fascinated about is by the personal …

SYNDACTYLY (SYN·DAC·TY·LY): FUSION OF FINGERS – Stephen Bell

Looking is natural when meeting someone new. We look more and for longer when someone looks unusual / different. This could be: a visible difference, a disfigurement, a disability, a condition, a deformity, scars, burns and port wine stains. Stephen was born with a condition called Syndactyly (pronounced ‘sin-DAK-til-ee’) (Fusion of Fingers). Syndactyly normally occurs in animals and is an …