This Sunday sees the 17th edition of the Great Manchester Run take place – an event which is now firmly ingrained as one of the city’s annual sporting highlights.

This focus on talking comes in the midst of Mental Health Awareness Week and includes the ‘Shining a Light on Suicide Campaign’, recently launched in Salford by the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, backed by Mayor Andy Burnham.

Mortality rates for females between 2015 and 2017 are said to be consistently higher in Scotland and lower in the UK, with Wales mortality rate being the second highest.

Tabley House, which houses 59 adults, was branded ‘inadequate’ by the health watchdog and was placed into the ‘special measures’ category.

Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital has launched an appeal to secure a new scanning suite that will revolutionise brain surgery at the hospital.

Imagine a pitch-black space. You’re lay down, but you can’t feel your body. You can’t see anything, you can’t hear anything, you can’t smell anything.

A UK-first walk-through smoke screen is at the Manchester Arndale to help ‘Make Smoking History’.

What was once a far-fetched absurdity reserved only for the most extreme has now become so normal that four in ten people in the UK admit to regularly choosing meat-free alternatives in a bid to cut down their meat consumption.

Mancunians bracing themselves for the deadly Aussie flu can track the illness on a live map.

Almost £30,000 was raised for adverts to blitz the London Underground with illustrations of Eric the chick, signposted with the hashtag ‘Save Little Eric’, condoning the slaughtering of male chicks at one day old.

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the executive department responsible for regulating medicine and medical devices in the UK, approved the use of e-cigarettes as a tool for quitting smoking.