Health

When Carolyn Aitken took her mum to Maggie’s in between radiotherapy appointments in Dundee, she never expected she would return more than a decade later with her own breast cancer diagnosis.

More Scottish mothers-to-be are overweight or obese than of healthy weight, which could be driving an increase in births by caesarean section, NHS data reveals.

Women who become pregnant soon after having a miscarriage are more likely to have a successful pregnancy than those who wait to conceive, research suggests.

JDRF exists to find the cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications, and is the world’s leading type 1 diabetes research charity.

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Scots still die younger than people living in other UK nations, despite improvements to life expectancy over the past three decades.

CANCER Research UK spent more than £33 million last year in Scotland on some of the UK’s leading scientific and clinical research

Overweight children in Scotland should be sent to state-run fat camps, health chiefs have said.

Thousands of women with a family history of breast cancer could be offered a cheap drug to reduce their risk of getting the disease themselves.

A woman has died after collapsing during a Santa fun run in the Borders on Saturday.

A health board has apologised for “past failings” after an investigation following the deaths of five babies at one hospital found evidence of sub-optimal care.

Scotland faces a “lost generation” of children with additional support needs if funding cuts continue, a network of support groups has warned.

An ultra-powerful £10 million magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner is being delivered to its new home in Glasgow.

In a church hall in Lochwinnoch, Liz Ramsay is one of 13 pensioners leaning forward, with most of their weight on their left calves, and their arms stretched out in front of them. “Is it painful?” demands Anne Morgan who is leading the sedate exercise session. There are murmurs of assent. “Good,” laughs Morgan, pleased that – despite the lack of lycra, leg warmers or hi-energy music – the pensioners can still “feel the burn”.

A leading osteopath has warned that long-term use of smartphones and tablets is leading to a huge rise in the number of children and teenagers diagnosed with chronic back and neck pain.

A simple blood test could help detect debilitating bowel disease earlier by picking up on changes in people’s DNA, Scottish scientists have discovered.

A nurse has been suspended for two months for concealing the fact that Scots medic Pauline Cafferkey had a raised temperature before she tested positive for Ebola.