Offering people with disabilities greater control over the budgets for their own care and support must not be a cover for cuts, according to the trade union Unison.
SMARTPHONE users will be able to download a "drinking time machine" app from this week which has been developed to show how regularly boozing too much can rapidly accelerate the ageing process.
HEALTH campaigners have called on the Scottish Government to provide free vitamin D supplements after advice was re-issued for pregnant women and children to take it daily.
SCOTLAND'S infections watchdog has reported a "substantial increase" in the number of E.coli cases last year, with positive tests for the bacteria up by 19%.
HEART failure, which affects around 900,000 people in the UK, is linked to a decline in mental processes and a loss of grey matter in the brain, according to new research.
Of all sports to play blind, the one which involves hitting a ball for hundreds of yards in the hope of getting it in a hole the size of a teacup seems a less than obvious choice.
PRO-LIFE campaigners have criticised a Scottish fertility clinic for introducing a screening test that checks for genetic abnormalities before eggs are implanted into a woman.
SCOTLAND'S largest nursing body has attacked "unsustainable" cuts to student numbers after the Scottish Government announced this year's intake of trainee nurses and midwives would be cut by 10%, taking it to its lowest level in 15 years.
A COSMETIC surgery firm that supplied more than 400 Scots with the banned PIP breast implants has performed a U-turn after initially refusing to pay for former patients to have them removed.
EFFORTS to establish an infection control working group in a hospital affected by a deadly superbug failed due to a lack of interest, an inquiry has heard.
28 January 2012
