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Trying to build a New Jerusalem: social policy in Scotland before devolution »

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On 23 January The Journal argued that the project of building a modern welfare state appealed to Scotland; not only did the Scottish people benefit massively from public housing, NHS, state benefits and so on, but they were also proud to be part of sha...

Tue 05 Mar 2013 by Jon Vrushi | Read more »

New life-saving lab opens at Southern General »

A £90 million laboratory to develop life-saving treatments and diagnosis has opened on the south side of Glasgow. Located on the Southern General campus in Govan, the new state-of-the-art facilities enable groundbreaking services for biochemistr...

Wed 14 Nov 2012 by Gareth Llewellyn | Read more »

Eye imaging to reduce heart disease »

Scientists hope to detect heart disease using retina scans

A project led by the University of Edinburgh is investigating a method that could detect heart disease by simply scanning blood vessels in the eye. Patients will have high-definition images taken of their retina as part of the project which would dete...

Thu 26 Apr 2012 by Jenny Kassner | Read more »

Breast cancer risk higher in ethnic minorities study shows »

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Pakistani, African and Indian women living in Scotland are at greater risk of late-diagnosis breast cancer compared to other ethnic groups, a study at the University of Edinburgh has found. The study, funded by the Chief Scientist Office, found correl...

Thu 26 Apr 2012 by Caroline Nguyen | Read more »

Caledonian staff and students in support of anti-homophobia campaign »

Staff and students at a Glasgow university last week gathered to support Scotland’s first NHS campaign against homophobia. Glasgow Caledonian University workers and students participated in a photo shoot to showcase their support for NHS Greater...

Mon 12 Mar 2012 by Stephen Walsh | Read more »

Photos: Tory minister's Edinburgh visit prompts protest »

Police attempt to prevent protesters from entering the Symposium Hall on Hill Square

There were tense scenes at Surgeons' Hall in Edinburgh this afternoon, as protesters picketed a visit by UK health secretary Andrew Lansley to the Royal College of Surgeons. Mr Lansley was due to deliver a keynote address as part of the programme even...

Fri 10 Feb 2012 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

‘Surgery’s Dirty Secrets’ up for Scottish BAFTA »

People trust their lives in the hands of doctors on a daily basis but Liam McDougall’s recent documentary investigating NHS practice has uncovered that some of the time the tools they use are no better than the plastic prongs in a game of Operation. N...

Mon 21 Nov 2011 by Jamie Brotherston | Read more »

Survey finds young Scots have poor dental hygiene »

The recent results of the Scottish Health Survey show that only 88 per cent of Scots aged 16 years and over possess some of their natural teeth, which misses the target set for this year by two per cent. The NHS Live Well website suggests that the ora...

Wed 27 Oct 2010 by Aleksandra Jurczak | Read more »

Scottish surgeons give girl free new year »

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Surgeons from Edinburgh’s Spire Murrayfield hospital are carrying out a procedure to create and attach two new ears to a girl from Trinidad. Kade Romain, 15, was born partially deaf and without ears, resulting in her being unable to attend mains...

Wed 27 Oct 2010 by Tommy McCallum | Read more »

Native Scots prone to alcohol related diseases »

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A study has shown that native Scots are more likely to die from alcohol-related causes compared to Scottish residents born in England or Wales. The research, carried out by The Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford and the NHS Information Services Divi...

Wed 29 Sep 2010 by Emma Fielding | Read more »

Big freeze brought new degree of chaos »

Snowy Edinburgh

Freezing temperatures in December and January placed strain on an already fragile economy and raised the winter death toll higher than ever before, analysts have revealed. Scotland suffered its coldest spell since records began in 1914, with temperatu...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Chris Berkin | Read more »

Is breast cancer research failing women? »

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Breast cancer can kill you. This simple fact means that screening is eminently sensible - a message which has been driven home to most women. But what happens to the 7,000 women out of the 1.7 million screened who are misdiagnosed? The Cochrane Center ...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Marthe Lamp Sandvik | Read more »

Minimum pricing policy receives support from experts »

Minimum pricing policy receives support from experts

All parties should move beyond partisan politics and get behind the Scottish government's minimum pricing initiative aimed at fighting alcohol consumption, an SNP MP has said. The SNP's goal of imposing a minimum price per unit of alcohol is gain...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Grace Wermenbol | Read more »

In sickness and in health »

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Since US President Barack Obama's announcement of his intention to overhaul health care in America, the news coverage in the United States has revolved around politicking, human interest, and fear-mongering – the policies themselves have not been...

Sun 13 Sep 2009 by Chris Grainger | Read more »

Controversial conditions for RBS scanner dropped »

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The Royal Bank of Scotland has removed a condition privileging its employees with 25 per cent usage of the first class heart scanner it donated to Queen’s Medical Research Institute in Edinburgh last year. The scanner, the first of its kind in t...

Sat 07 Mar 2009 by Lidjia Liegis | Read more »

Holyrood debates democratically elected health boards »

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In a move aimed at reducing a perceived “democratic deficit” in the provision of health care, the Scottish Parliament has assented to support the key principles of the Health Boards Bill. The bill, which has the support of both Labour and ...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Liam Martin | Read more »

Patients' lobbies funded by drugs companies »

This week the Independent newspaper called into question the credibility of several charities responsible for lobbying the NHS for expensive drugs and treatments. The investigation revealed that many of them received funding from pharmaceutical co...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Magnus Huntly-Grant | Read more »

Funding Charlatans »

An aunt who has never quite got over the passing of 1969 into 1970 recently told me that she was planning to take Charaka as prophylaxis for malaria on a trip to Botswana. Having picked the drug up in Switzerland from her homeopath, she wondered what I...

Thu 14 Feb 2008 by Chris Williams | Read more »

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