As attention turns to safety offshore at this week’s Piper 25 conference, health must not become safety’s poor relation. There is a huge emphasis on industry safety, and rightly so. But oil and gas operators also need to recognise that health plays an equally important role.

FREE contraception for pupils as young as 13 should be looked at as part of a drive to cut Scotland’s chronic teenage pregnancy rates, MSPs have said.

EXPOSURE to traffic fumes and industrial air pollution can dramatically increase a mother’s chances of having a child with autism, research has shown.

SAMUEL L Jackson has urged men to be more open about their health problems in an attempt to tackle cancer.

Drinking in moderation through pregnancy does not harm a baby’s neurodevelopment, according to research.

In the hit X-Men movie franchise, Hollywood actor Brian Cox portrays a scientist determined to expose mutants as a threat to humanity.

AN ISLAND mother is to lodge a complaint after a mainland hospital discharged her and her newborn baby in the middle of the night.

ANYONE visiting Holyrood Park in Edinburgh yesterday would have come across a sea of pink, the garment colour of choice for the 5,600 women who gathered to take part in Race for Life to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

TOUGH decisions must be made about how much is spent on care towards the end of life if health services are to remain affordable in years to come, a leading Scottish doctor has warned.

THE leading Scottish doctor who created a jab to prevent cervical cancer says a vaccine to stop people getting skin cancer is now on the horizon.

THEY were once lauded as the tobacco-free answer for people struggling to give up smoking.

SCOTTISH patients wrongly charged for nursing care will get their money back, health secretary Alex Neil has said.

Men who behave like Michael Douglas, Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood are to blame for women ending their reproductive life early, according to a new theory.

THE chief executive of the State Hospital at Carstairs is to step aside while an independent investigation is carried out into bullying allegations.

Too many cancer patients in Scotland feel abandoned after finishing treatment and need more support, campaigners said as they launched an ambitious scheme to transform care.

RESEARCHERS at a Scottish university are seeking volunteers for a study to discover whether the blaeberry could play a critical role in the fight against diabetes.

INTERNATIONAL drug laws have set back key areas of scientific research including potential medical treatments, a controversial former government drugs adviser has warned.

A SCOTTISH woman who suffered ten miscarriages has given birth after travelling to England for a special treatment using a solution made with eggs.

OVER 5,000 quilts have been laid out at Hampden Park to promote awareness of Alzheimers.

WHEN Carn Peaston was diagnosed with breast cancer last year she was determined not to let the disease win.