Health

Life expectancy is now going backwards in many parts of Scotland and has stalled in almost all areas, official figures have revealed.

A woman has told of her three-year nightmare after she developed a ‘trout pout’ like Leslie Ash when she had filler to add volume to her lips.

Parents were told they had to watch a nativity play over the internet after a norovirus breakout.

This Christmas, more older people in Scotland will be alone and feeling lonely than ever before, and social isolation can have fatal health consequences, experts say.

The biggest reason for personal bankruptcy in the US is the inability to pay medical bills, like the extra cost of giving birth prematurely, writes Joe Goldblatt.

Kevin Smith almost died last year.

A GP who cited the cases of Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instill fear in his patients is facing jail for molesting 23 female patients.

The Scottish Government was kept in the dark about secret reports exposing infection risks at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, Health Secretary Jean Freeman has confirmed.

Nearly one in four children in primary one are at risk of being either overweight or obese, according to official statistics.

A hospital has admitted liability after a woman reported being operated on while conscious, leaving her with post-traumatic stress disorder, lawyers have said.

Jeremy Corbyn has insisted the experience of a four-year-old boy lying on a pile of coats to keep warm while he waited for a hospital bed is a political issue.

A teenage girl was injured as she was struck by a car in a hit and run outside a hospital.