Health

A free sexual health screening service has been stopped in Lincoln after they lost funding from the NHS. The ‘FreeTest.me’ service, provided sexual health aid to young people aged 16 to 24, by posting free testing kits to their homes. Many people across the city used the confidential service instead...

Hopefully you like your dentist because it looks like you won't be switching anytime soon.

Lincolnshire school's are sinking their teeth into a new scheme to get children to eat their vegetables.

Efforts to improve the health and well-being of Lincolnshire's mentally ill elderly have been underway at Lincolnshire's Eagle Hall since 2016. The Sage Gardener programme uses nature found on the grounds of Swinderby's Eagle Hall to encourage people suffering with diseases like dementia to interact with their environment. Patients and...

Ben Martin of the band Don't Forget Rupert This past weekend a handful of Lincolnshire's hottest upcoming bands came together for a night and raised a total of £622 for the Alzheimer's Society charity. Lincoln's very own punk rock band Hideout, The Ultraviolet and Kings & Bears, both from Boston,...

It was boobs galore in the University of Lincoln Sports Centre last Thursday. The Coppafeel charity took over dodgeball society to raise breast cancer awareness.

Charity, 'Allergy UK' has expressed the importance of correct labelling and say the food industry needs to do more to keep people safe.

Figures from the United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust show that admissions for drug misuse in 2018 were substantially lower than 2017. According to the figures gained through a Freedom of Information request for LSJ News, admissions for misuse, that included every drug from cocaine to paracetamol, dropped from 442 in 2016/17 to 278 in 2018. Drug...

Can you imagine sitting in class at school, legs crossed, petrified to stand up in case of the humiliating judgement of something so natural.