Health
Trying to find the best hearing aid for your needs can be more difficult than you might think. There are hundreds of different models to choose from and the technical jargon is usually beyond the understanding of the lay person. So which is the best hearing aid? Do I really need the best technology or would something less high tech be more suitable? How much is a fair price to pay? These are the questions we aim to answer There are around 8 major hearing aid manufacturers: Phonak, Unitron, Resound, Widex, Oticon, Bernafon, Siemens and Starkey. There are some other...
Many liposuction procedures are reasonably priced but one woman from Russia has taken it to an extreme by spending a whopping £4,000 on over one hundred lip injections. The 22 year-old from St Petersburg has forked out thousands of pounds on 100 silicone injections to look like Jessica Rabbit and have the world’s biggest pout. Kristina Rei has blown the fortune in order to emulate the cartoon diva from the famous film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” The woman is said to have believed her thin lips made her appear ugly but thought that looking like the animation character would make...
Summer is well and truly over and now is the time to wrap up and stay warm as the temperature drops and the evenings get darker. According to the NHS, you’re 80% more likely to get a cold in the winter, but there are a number of ways you can keep yourself healthy, so here at some top tips to help you avoid the dreaded lurgy! Get more sleep We naturally want to sleep more in winter because of the dark mornings and evenings. Our internal clock wants us to be awake when its light and asleep when its dark...
Holland and Barrett is expanding its card loyalty program and has ordered a further five million cards for its customers. The health food chain had signed a Macclesfield manufacturer to produce a million cards for its loyalty schemes across 40 selected stores earlier this year. The programme signed up around 200,000 shoppers in the north and the midlands during a 19-week trial but now the firm is rolling the scheme out nationwide. The business estimates that it will sign up 2.5 million customers to the system in its first full year. The retailer loyalty cards and key fob cards will...
It is not uncommon for parents to have a certain amount of fear and apprehension when they first realise their child is perhaps not hearing well. Some basic information on children’s hearing aids can go a long way to assuage that fear. The first concern many parents have is how old their child must be before he or she can be fitted with a hearing aid. Actually, modern technology is so advanced that we are now able to fit infants as young as four weeks old with a hearing device. In situations where the child is extremely young...
There probably isn’t a home in the UK that doesn’t have a supply of aspirins on hand for occasional aches and pains and maybe even a bandage or two for nicks and cuts. But when the cost of all the little supplies we keep on hand for first aid adds up, it really would be much cheaper just to invest in a first aid kit. Of course it is regulated that companies and sole proprietors should have specific first aid kits readily available on the job but when it comes to the home, many of us aren’t prepared for...
The sad part about having problems with vision or hearing loss is that many of us are just too vain to wear glasses or hearing aids which can give us a whole new perspective of the world around us. Whilst there have been contact lenses for more than half a century now, totally invisible hearing aids are just now reaching the market. For the first time in the history of hearing aids, there is a new device which is placed directly into the ear canal in close proximity to the eardrum and is completely invisible from the outside. The...