Health Archive

A council is to become the first in Scotland to install defibrillators in all its secondary schools.

A HEALTH board has been criticised after faulty scanning equipment failed to show a woman had conceived while undergoing fertility treatment, leading to her having further treatment which she claimed "destroyed" her baby.

THE recommendations in two reviews into access to new medicines are unlikely to raise the number of drugs approved for use on the NHS, MSPs have been told.

Pregnant women and those planning to have children should ensure adequate iodine intake, according to a new report.

Around 120 baby deaths could be prevented in the UK every year if parents stopped sharing beds with their children, research suggests.

A cancer charity has hit out at the "enormous inequality" in the system for prescribing new medicines.

FEARS have been raised by the Government watchdog that more patients' treatment may have been affected by a mysterious drop in success rates at Scotland's largest NHS fertility clinic.

DEATH rates at Scotland's flagship heart hospital have raised alarm and triggered an internal review.

SCOTS scientists have been awarded £6.3 million to scour the seas for chemicals and compounds which could be used to develop new cancer medicines and antibiotics.

Depressed middle-aged women have almost double the risk of suffering a stroke, according to research.

A SPINAL surgeon who bungled operations on patients at a private hospital in Scotland will be allowed to operate for the NHS.

A link between epilepsy and autism has been dis-covered for the first time, researchers claim.

COUPLES struggling to conceive will be limited to two cycles of IVF on the NHS in Scotland in an attempt to drive down waiting lists, with obese women to be barred from receiving the fertility treatment.

A SPINAL surgeon who botched operations at a private hospital in Scotland is due to learn his fate today.