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Good oral hygiene benefits general health

Nil by mouth: Opening up to oral hygiene

ORAL health – or the lack of it – is an indicator of general well-being, so it’s time to sort out your hygiene regime

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Lifelines: Anne Chilton on cross-communication

Q: I HAVE fallen out with my best friend. She took something I said the wrong way and now avoids me, and I don’t know how to get things back to how they were. We have known each other for 30 years and have always been there for each other.

GMC plans to check up on doctors’ competence

DOCTORS in Scotland will have to prove they are fit to practise under new plans to ensure patients are not misdiagnosed or given outdated treatment.

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permanent make-up artist and consultant Karen Betts. Picture: Fiona Hanson

Ruth Walker: It’s more than skin-deep, cosmetic tattooing changes lives

TATTOOS. It seems that everyone has one these days. Whether it's a tramp stamp à la Christina Aguilera, something a little more esoteric, like Jessica Alba’s (she has the Sanskrit symbol for a lotus flower on her wrist), or a full-on body inking in the David Beckham league, all the celebs are now wearing their art on their sleeves.

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Lifelines: Bernadette Lynass on problem neighbours

NIGHTLY NOISES

My neighbours are keeping me awake at night with their noisy love-making. I really don’t know how to broach the subject with them and so have ended up having to sleep on the sofa.

I don’t want to cause my neighbours any embarrassment but I need my sleep. Do I say nothing or risk causing friction between us?

New bid to get cancer drug for Scots patients

THE company behind a drug which could extend the lives of men suffering from prostate cancer has asked again for the treatment to be made available to NHS patients.

Iris McIntyre, with her mother Marion, whom she reluctantly put into care as her dementia worsened, a decision she now says she deeply regrets

Case study: ‘My mother was left in a vegetative state’

WHEN Marion McIntyre’s health deteriorated due to dementia, her carer and daughter Iris had no choice but to seek respite support before finally having to let her go into a nursing home.

Analysis: Care home drugs put elderly at risk

THIS report from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) is a welcome contribution to a growing body of evidence showing where and how residential care can be improved, and follows on from the Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sports Committee’s inquiry into the regulation of care for older people, which found incidences in some care homes of residents being medicated to “manage their behaviour”.

Some elderly patients were left on dangerous medicines for years. Picture (posed by models): Ian Georgeson

Revealed: Scotland’s care home drug scandal

ELDERLY patients in care homes across Scotland are being prescribed powerful drugs for long periods of time without proper checks on whether the medication is needed.

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Lifelines: Long distance relationships

Pauline Nimmo, a registered family mediator gives advice on the difficulties involved

Spin bikes meet cycling for the arms in krank fusion

Fitness: If you’re bored of your old exercise classes, now there’s a fitness fusion regime to suit everyone writes: Ruth Walker

DISCO yoga, anyone? Cycle karaoke? Or (for the brave) cardio striptease? There’s something to be said for mixing it up a bit when the same old fitness regime gets to feel a little tired.

New drug able to fight off deadliest superbugs

A POWERFUL new drug that fights one of the deadliest hospital superbugs could soon become available in Scotland.

Oliver and Gerrard team up to fight fat

JAMIE Oliver and Steven Gerrard have joined forces with leading figures in health and education to ask the Government to fight obesity through cookery teaching in schools.

Self help guru Philippa Perry with husband artist Grayson Perry (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Lifestyle: There are more ways than ever to stay sane with self help guidance

FINANCIAL worries. Marriage breakdown. Fractured families. Job insecurity. Peer pressure. How on earth do we manage to stay sane in this increasingly crazy world we live in?

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Lifelines: Sexual privacy

Anne Chilton, head of professional practice for couselling with Relationships Scotland offers advice

Women to get the Pill direct from pharmacist

SCOTTISH women will be able to obtain the contraceptive Pill directly from High Street chemists without a prescription under a radical new scheme.

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£35,000 boost for cancer detector

A SCOTTISH foundation has awarded a £35,000 grant to campaigners raising funds for a new cancer-detecting microscope.

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