Health

East Sussex County Council has apologised for causing ‘unnecessary distress’ to a family seeking support for their mother’s nursing care.

A baby food producer has recalled a batch of one of its products as it may contain small pieces of blue rubber.

East Sussex is one of the worst areas in Europe for disease-carrying ticks, a new study has revealed.

A charity netball tournament this weekend will help a little boy from Sussex who is suffering from a desperately rare condition.

A brand new multi-use games area has been opened by the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust at its medium security hospital at Hellingly.

A nurse slapped a wheelchair-bound dementia patient at a care home in a ‘deplorable’ abuse of position.

A new urine test for cervical cancer could be game-changing for more than 30,000 women in East Sussex who missed their last smear test.

More than 2,000 people in East Sussex are users of heroin and crack cocaine, according to newly-released figures.

Cooking is one of Britain’s favourite pastimes – we share pictures online, make food for our friends and family and consume cooking content at an astronomical rate.

The UK’s leading HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has partnered with a team of students to launch a three-part HIV awareness documentary entitled Living Positive.

A healthcare provider has been fined £300,000 over the tragic death of a 14-year-old girl in East Sussex.

Men may find it harder to make friends and even harder to admit to being lonely, according to wellbeing charity Ben.

A seal which has delighted members of the public along the Sussex coast may have actually swallowed a fishing line and could be quite ill, vets have warned.

Hundreds of babies with macrosomia were born in East Sussex last year, new figures have revealed.

Lives across Sussex - and throughout the south east - are being put at risk because a number of volunteer emergency medics have been ‘deactivated.’

Residents who regularly take prescription medications are urged to order repeat prescriptions in advance of GP practices and pharmacies reducing hours over the Easter Bank Holidays.