Health Archive

  • Zoo may ask for giant panda help
    Monday 15 April 2013

    ZOO bosses may import frozen giant panda sperm if Edinburgh's favourite bears fail to conceive.

  • Artificial kidneys: scientists take two major steps
    Sunday 14 April 2013

    Kidneys have been fashioned by scientists and observed functioning in rats, and a first step has also been made towards constructing human kidneys in the laboratory..

  • NHS staff in plea to Neil over pensions
    Friday 12 April 2013

    NHS workers have called on the Health Secretary to take action to prevent a third year of pension contribution increases.

  • Safety alert over faulty diabetes blood meters
    Friday 12 April 2013

    PEOPLE with diabetes have been warned to check if they have a faulty blood glucose meter at home that could give a false reading and delay treatment.

  • Website resource for rare disease
    Thursday 11 April 2013

    The parents of a teenager who died from a rare disease have launched the first online resource for people living with the chronic illness.

  • New skin cancer treatment on offer
    Tuesday 9 April 2013

    SCOTTISH patients are to be offered the first new treatment in 30 years for a deadly skin cancer.

  • Surgery to restart at heart unit
    Tuesday 9 April 2013

    Children's heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary will restart tomorrow, NHS England has said.

  • Stroke test 'revolutionary'
    Monday 8 April 2013

    DOCTORS in Glasgow are pioneering a radical new approach to the treatment of stroke patients that could revolutionise their care.

  • Drug trial 'stalled by red tape'
    Monday 8 April 2013

    A trial that could lead to magic mushroom treatments for depression has been stalled due to "absurd" red tape, a sacked UK Government drugs advisor has claimed.

  • Measles cases soar to 588
    Saturday 6 April 2013

    The number of confirmed cases of measles in a new epidemic has risen to 588.

  • Firm in horsemeat apology
    Saturday 6 April 2013

    THE firm that provided meals containing horsemeat to Edinburgh schoolchildren has apologised for not admitting earlier the products had been recalled.

  • MP wants probe into heart unit decision
    Saturday 6 April 2013

    AN MP and campaigners have called for an investigation into why a "reckless" decision was made to suspend children's heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary.

  • Potassium foods may save lives
    Friday 5 April 2013

    MILLIONS of lives could be saved every year if people ate more potassium-rich foods such as bananas and cut down on salt intake, research suggests.

  • In a class of their own
    Friday 5 April 2013

    Dr Mary Hepburn is not a convert to the reconfigured class system published by the London School of Economics this week, which suggested the UK now had seven different social classes.

  • Pensioners face delay for vital equipment after NHS supplier's stock-take
    Thursday 4 April 2013

    A SERVICE which provides aids at home for pensioners when they are discharged from hospital was wound down for a stock- take – immediately before the Easter holiday.

  • Just 30% 'satisfied with social care'
    Thursday 4 April 2013

    LESS than one in three people are satisfied with the state of social care, a poll suggests.

  • Sleeping pill fears for the elderly
    Wednesday 3 April 2013

    Doctors have been accused of the "inappropriate and extended" prescribing of powerful sleeping pills to elderly insomniacs.

  • Where are volunteers of the Ladies' Auxiliary?
    Tuesday 2 April 2013

    An academic is appealing for help to find out what happened to a group of health fundraisers in the early 1990s.

  • Concern at mystery surge in male bowel cancer rate
    Tuesday 2 April 2013

    THE number of men being diagnosed with bowel cancer has risen by more than 30% in the last 35 years, according to a charity.

  • Alert line for NHS staff is launched
    Tuesday 2 April 2013

    A NEW alert line for NHS staff who want to raise concerns in confidence goes live today.

  • Anger as girl left waiting months for an eye exam
    Monday 1 April 2013

    A SIX-year-old girl was kept waiting months for a hospital eye examination despite Scottish Government targets promising appointments within 12 weeks.

  • Victims of Huntington's disease need more help, warns charity
    Monday 1 April 2013

    John Eden, chief executive of the Scottish Huntington's Association, made the call after a study found more than 16 people in every 100,000 in Scotland are living with the incurable illness.

  • Questions over data on child deaths at hospital
    Monday 1 April 2013

    A controversial move to suspend children's heart surgery at an embattled hospital was further inflamed when a statistics expert questioned the figures behind the decision.

  • Patients' legal action
    Saturday 30 March 2013
  • Mortality figures 'not fit to be used'
    Saturday 30 March 2013

    Mortality figures that led to children's congenital heart surgery being suspended at Leeds General Infirmary were "not fit to be used", a lead clinician said yesterday.

  • Lethal bat virus warning issued
    Saturday 30 March 2013

    SCIENTISTS have compared a deadly new infection linked to bats, which has killed a second British man, to the Sars virus.

  • NHS operations delayed again
    Friday 29 March 2013

    DOZENS of patients caught up in a row over dirty instruments have had their operations postponed for a second time in a month as Scotland's largest health board struggles to get to grips with a supply crisis at its central decontamination unit.

  • Fibre lowers risks of strokes
    Friday 29 March 2013

    Eating more fibre may protect against death and disability by lowering the risk of having a stroke, a study has found.

  • Spread of vomiting bug linked to hospital overcrowding
    Thursday 28 March 2013

    FEARS overcrowding in Scottish hospitals is increasing the spread of the winter vomiting bug among patients have been raised by a leading clinician.

  • Campaigners back plan for plain cigarette packaging
    Thursday 28 March 2013

    PLANS to make Scotland the first place in the UK to force cigarettes and other tobacco products to be sold in plain packaging have been welcomed by health campaigners.