Health Archive

  • Autism drug to be tested
    Thursday 14 March 2013

    A drug that may reverse autism is to be tested on children with the condition, scientists have revealed.

  • Breast cancer drug is approved
    Thursday 14 March 2013

    A LIFE-EXTENDING breast cancer drug that has been hailed as the biggest breakthrough since Herceptin has been authorised for use in the UK.

  • Scientist first to be convicted of fiddling research
    Thursday 14 March 2013

    A SCIENTIST who falsified research data while working for an Edinburgh drug development firm has become the first person in the UK to be convicted under laboratory good practice laws.

  • Sensors may help cancer treatment
    Thursday 14 March 2013

    Tiny sensors which would monitor tumours in unprecedented levels of detail are being developed in a five-year project at a Scots university.

  • Woman, 85, left in agony - and with no apology
    Wednesday 13 March 2013

    PENSIONER Helen Cullen from Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, had been waiting seven weeks for a hip replacement when a nurse from Gartnavel phoned her to say the procedure could not go ahead due to "problems in theatre".

  • Patients face delays amid fears over surgery safety
    Wednesday 13 March 2013

    PATIENTS whose operations were delayed after surgeons raised fears about dirty and damaged surgical tools could be waiting weeks before their procedures go ahead.

  • Sleep loss may be early sign of Alzheimer's
    Tuesday 12 March 2013

    Sleep loss can be an early warning sign of Alzheimer's, new research suggests.

  • Operations cancelled in row over surgery safety
    Tuesday 12 March 2013

    PATIENTS at a leading hospital have had their operations cancelled after medics raised fears over dirty surgical equipment.

  • A block on freedom
    Tuesday 12 March 2013

    Thousands of elderly patients in hospital or residents in care homes risk being deprived of their liberty due to administrative delays, according to experts.

  • Scots to lose out in ruling on drug
    Tuesday 12 March 2013

    WOMEN in Scotland who are diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer or who suffer a relapse of the disease will be unable to access a drug available to patients in England.

  • Massive rise in attacks on hospital staff
    Monday 11 March 2013

    HEALTH workers across Scotland have reported a huge rise in attacks over the past three years.

  • Restaurants serving up cheaper meat in curries
    Monday 11 March 2013

    A LEADING food safety expert claims restaurants have been substituting cheap beef for lamb for years, after a report revealed one-third of curry houses north of the Border are guilty of the practice.

  • Eye tests for 11,000 children
    Monday 11 March 2013

    More than 11,000 children have had their eyes screened in a programme to prevent future sight loss.

  • Busy GPs refuse to help disabled patients fight benefit tribunals
    Sunday 10 March 2013

    PATIENTS caught in the controversial disability benefits tribunal system are being refused help by GPs who claim they are being deluged with requests for medical reports which doctors say they are not paid for by the Government.

  • 144 born HIV-free thanks to screening
    Thursday 7 March 2013

    DOCTORS have hailed an HIV screening programme for expectant mothers which has seen 144 babies born without the virus.

  • Funding boost for prostate cancer
    Thursday 7 March 2013

    Research into the most common form of cancer in men is to receive a £500,000 funding boost.

  • GPs told they must give whooping cough jabs
    Thursday 7 March 2013

    THE Scottish Government has intervened in a row between GPs and midwives about who should give pregnant women the whooping cough vaccine, saying family doctors should do the job.

  • Nursing shortages for heart failure patients
    Wednesday 6 March 2013

    More people than ever have the condition, in which the heart muscle struggles to pump enough blood around the body, but the number of nurses looking after sufferers has been cut.

  • Whooping cough vaccine row putting babies at risk
    Wednesday 6 March 2013

    MIDWIVES are refusing to give the whooping cough vaccine to pregnant women in Scotland, potentially leaving newborn babies unprotected from the illness, general practitioners have warned.

  • Drug help action call after rise in deaths
    Wednesday 6 March 2013

    Doctors, nurses and pharmacists may be contributing to the rising toll of drugs deaths, experts said.

  • Ovarian drug injection hope
    Wednesday 6 March 2013

    INJECTING drugs straight into the abdomen can extend the lives of some women with ovarian cancer, research has shown.

  • New diabetes drug offers hope for Scottish patients
    Tuesday 5 March 2013

    A NEW treatment for people with diabetes is being launched offering hope for hundreds of thousands of Scots patients.

  • Placenta link to stress in unborn children
    Tuesday 5 March 2013

    A pregnant mother's placenta can transmit damaging effects of stress to her unborn child, say researchers.

  • Scots trials for device that could cut stroke deaths
    Tuesday 5 March 2013

    RESEARCHERS in Scotland are carrying out early clinical trials on a potentially life-saving device for stroke patients.

  • New medical centre in body donor call
    Monday 4 March 2013

    The Clinical Anatomy Skills Centre, based in the Thomson Building at Glasgow University, has been equipped with high- tech surgical equipment to allow students and trainee doctors to practise operations.

  • Gene link between melanoma and obesity
    Monday 4 March 2013

    A gene linked to obesity and over-eating may also raise the risk of the most deadly form of skin cancer, research has shown.

  • NHS faces diabetes epidemic
    Monday 4 March 2013

    MORE than 50 people are diagnosed with diabetes every day in Scotland, prompting warnings of an epidemic.

  • Cancer drug breakthrough
    Monday 4 March 2013

    SCOTS researchers have discovered a new way of killing cancer cells in leukaemia patients, which could lead to the development of safer drugs.

  • UK lags on breast cancer survival
    Friday 1 March 2013

    Fewer women survive breast cancer in the UK than in Australia, Canada, Norway and Sweden, research shows.

  • Waiting lists pressure rises
    Thursday 28 February 2013

    MINISTERS are under renewed pressure over the patient waiting lists scandal after the head of Scotland's spending watchdog said the Scottish Government failed to heed early warning signs.