HEALTH bosses have been accused of putting lives at risk by refusing to offer a groundbreaking drug to thousands of Lothian heart attack patients.

CRISIS-HIT Lothian accident and emergency departments are set to be radically overhauled, with scaled back services expected to lead to an increase in pressure on the already over-stretched Royal Infirmary.

WHEN George Thomson meets up with former top flight SFA ref Martin Clark, it could be easily assumed that talk would mostly be about the latest football news.

Scotland’s cricket team is urging more people from south Asian communities to join the organ donor register.

Controversy today surrounds the appointment of Lothian’s newest NHS boss after it emerged he lives on the other side of the country and has no experience in healthcare.

Staff at a Lothians hospital have hit out at NHS bosses after they were told they would have to park their cars at a football stadium 15 minutes away and walk into work.

ANGELINA Jolie’s decision to have a preventative double mastectomy was “absolutely heroic”, according to her partner Brad Pitt.

A DECISION to evict some of the city’s most frail residents from their sheltered housing homes will lead to a deepening of a “crisis” in the Capital’s hospitals and social care sector, experts have warned.

EIGHT out of ten people in Edinburgh believe assisted dying should be made legal, a new poll claimed today.

PARAMEDICS are secretly filming patients suffering heart attacks as part of a controversial research project headed by Edinburgh University.

THE Sick Kids Friends Foundation celebrated 20 years of vital fundraising late last year and yesterday honoured some of the people who have made it all possible.

CITY researchers have called for better monitoring of whether much-needed medicines reach mothers and babies in the developing world.

A KEYHOLE surgery technique which speeds up recovery times for cancer patients has been 
introduced in West Lothian.

GET up, drag yourself to work, complain about it to your colleagues, come home and do it all again the next day.

CITY residents are kidding themselves into believing they lead active lives while almost two-thirds spend at least 20 hours a day on their backsides or lying down, a new report has claimed.

FEARS have been raised over the supply of booze in the Capital, after it emerged that the concerns of health experts have been continually overruled by city licensing chiefs.

AN Edinburgh MSP who raised a key issue over the PFI contract at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the Scottish Parliament has been criticised by Holyrood’s Presiding Officer.

SOME of the Capital’s most vulnerable residents are being subjected to “enormous avoidable suffering” as a result of fitness-to-work benefits tests, prominent city GPs have said.

THE faces of two city siblings are set to become familiar to families across the UK – after their parents said goats’ milk is a miracle cure for eczema.

WHEN Yvonne Campbell had a heart attack aged just 33 and was told she had an incredibly rare condition, she thought nobody would understand what she was going through.