October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and ghd wants to help make sure you check your breasts each month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and ghd wants to help make sure you check your breasts each month

This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Hair styling products company, ghd, want to encourage and remind you to check your breasts regularly with their new product range. Read on to learn more about it, The Urban Kitchen founder, Toral Shah’s experience of breast cancer at just 29 and how to perform a potentially life-saving monthly breast check on yourself.

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Wellbeing, News, HealthBritish Asian Women's MagazineBreast Cancer Awareness Month, breast cancer, cancer, october, health, wellbeingComment
More Asian people are likely to be a living organ donor than a deceased donor but Asian patients still wait six months longer for a transplant
More Asian people are likely to be a living organ donor than a deceased donor but Asian patients still wait six months longer for a transplant

There is a stark imbalance between the numbers of BAME people donating organs and those patients in need of a lifesaving transplant. Many who decline donating a relative’s organs say it is because they feel it is against their religious or cultural beliefs or because they do not know if it’s what the relative would have wanted. But a new law is looking to change this.

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Black and south Asian relationships in movies
Black and south Asian relationships in movies

There is a level of anti-black prejudice in the south Asian community, which means that relationships between these cultures may have to fight harder or may be less likely to happen in some circumstances. However, these relationships do happen even though the film industry at large would have us think differently.

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Culture, RelationshipsBritish Asian Women's Magazinemovies, film, cinema, black, south asian, relationships, culture, love, racism, anti-racism