Our National Hearing Sales Manager, David Obbard, attended an Oticon product event with Edwina Currie as a guest speaker. Read what she had to say about her experience with hearing aids and how it has changed her life!
It’s summer holiday season; a time to kick back, escape the everyday and recharge your batteries on carefree sunny days. Whether jetting off to farflung places or enjoying a staycation, a summer break of new experiences and relaxation is good for the soul and the senses.
But please don’t take a break from looking after your hearing – that’s important year-round whatever your age.
It’s an eye-watering statistic that around 200,000 people are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes every year.
Today (11 June) is the start of Diabetes Week to raise awareness of this serious health condition which affects a growing number of lives and is the leading cause of blindness in people of working age in the UK.
Half-term holidays are sure to brighten up children, especially if the sun shines.
Freed from classroom constraints, it’s a chance to get out and about and enjoy time spent with family and friends.
Please ensure your children have sunglasses and encourage them to wear them. They look cool as well as doing a cool job of protection.
Community events are being staged all around the UK to mark Dementia Action Week and Scrivens is joining in to show its support.
From bake and book sales to raffles, fun competitions and eye-catching fancy dress, our branches are raising funds and awareness for our chosen charity Alzheimer’s Society.
Have you heard? Hearing loss affects more than 11 million people in the UK so you’re not alone if your hearing isn’t what it used to be.
Deaf Awareness Week from 14-20 May is a chance to spotlight the issue and challenge perceptions of hearing loss and deafness across the UK.
Some people have an innate sense of style that seems to come to them naturally.
But many of us have to work a little bit harder on finding what really suits us, with a few fashion mistakes along the way, to feel happy with our choices.
Global campaigns sometimes feel a world away and don’t always hit home.
Today’s International Noise Awareness Day should have a resonance with all of us though because excessive noise is not just annoying, it is bad for our wellbeing. In the short term noise causes stress, which affects our health, and in the long term noise causes hearing loss.
It’s the World Health Organisation’s 70th annual World Health Day on Saturday April 7 which will highlight the fight for universal healthcare for all.
WHO says half the world lacks access to appropriate medical services and another 100 million people have been forced into poverty from paying for medical bills or services.
It sounds like science fiction, but it could become fact within just a few years.
Researchers are working on a smart contact lens that can measure glucose levels to alert people with diabetes when their blood sugar levels are too low. They have in-built transparent electronics to monitor glucose levels from tears in the eye.
