Health Archive

  • 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.

  • Smokers motivated to quit by money
    Wednesday 27 February 2013

    ONE-quarter of smokers claim that the cost of their habit is a bigger motivator to quit than implications for their health.

  • A&E waiting delays worst for five years
    Wednesday 27 February 2013

    DELAYS in Scotland's accident and emergency departments are at the worst level for five years, adding to the furore surrounding waiting times failures.

  • Hospitals across Scotland need 1600 more nursing staff
    Wednesday 27 February 2013

    HOSPITALS in Scotland are short of more than 1600 nurses – the most since the summer of 2007 – figures have revealed.

  • Call for better dementia care
    Tuesday 26 February 2013

    FEWER than half of dementia sufferers living in care homes enjoy a good quality of life, a charity has warned as it revealed record numbers of people in care homes have the condition.

  • Urgent health services get £50m overhaul
    Tuesday 26 February 2013

    Emergency and urgent healthcare services will be given a £50 million overhaul to try to improve treatment times and patient care.

  • Revealed: £213m bill to NHS in negligence claims
    Monday 25 February 2013

    MEDICAL negligence payouts have cost the NHS in Scotland more than £200 million over the past six years, with the cost of hospital blunders set to rise further after a near-20% surge in claims being filed.

  • Paediatrician warns about falling care standards
    Monday 25 February 2013

    THE future of children's wards in as many as four Scottish hospitals should be reviewed amid safety concerns about the standard of care, a senior paediatrician has warned.

  • Series of blunders ended in death of woman
    Monday 25 February 2013

    FATHER-OF-THREE Alastair Laing, from Port Glasgow, is among the hundreds of Scots seeking compensation for medical negligence after a series of blunders led to the death of his wife four years ago.

  • Sturgeon in the firing line over waiting times
    Friday 22 February 2013

    DEPUTY First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is facing calls to answer questions in the Scottish Parliament on the management of waiting times in the wake of a damning report.

  • Socially unavailable: what it means
    Thursday 21 February 2013

    A new system of managing waiting times in Scotland was introduced in 2008.

  • Sturgeon is under pressure as grand NHS plan cracks
    Thursday 21 February 2013

    Where the former Labour-run Scottish Executive had failed on cutting NHS waiting times for treatment, the minority SNP Government elected in 2007 delivered.

  • Donor drive
    Thursday 21 February 2013

    EDINBURGH mother-of-four Naomi Stocks, 30, is one of a group of organ recipients backing a drive to increase the number of Scots on the Organ Donor Register.

  • How faults in system emerged
    Thursday 21 February 2013

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  • Fall in IQ linked to schizophrenia risk
    Thursday 21 February 2013

    People with a greater likelihood of developing schizophrenia have an increased chance of their IQ falling as they get older, according to Scots research.

  • Hospital complaint into death upheld
    Thursday 21 February 2013

    A 70-YEAR-OLD man, who died after a blood vessel ruptured in his abdomen hours after being sent home from hospital with painkillers, might have survived had doctors thoroughly assessed and treated him, a watchdog has found.

  • Skincare boost from sunbeds
    Thursday 21 February 2013

    Sunbed users are twice as likely to use anti-ageing products than those who do not, a poll suggests.