Health secretary Jeane Freeman has admitted she knew in September that the death of a child with cancer at Scotland’s flagship hospital, the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, was linked to contaminated water.
A simple six-week NHS community cooking scheme helped families eat more healthily by turning them away from ready meals, sweets and biscuits, an academic study has found.
An urgent investigation into allegations that a child cancer patient died as a result of contaminated water in a Glasgow hospital must be conducted by Scotland's health minister, it was demanded today.
Patients with advanced breast cancer that has spread to the skin are likely to cause more harm to themselves if they use therapies like ginger, garlic, hawthorn and horse chestnut to treat their lesions.
The science of sport will take centre stage this month with the Observatory for Sport in Scotland’s (OSS) national summit in Edinburgh, and it is to be welcomed, writes Dr Catherine Calderwood.
A Scottish woman who was told to “go home and get her life in order” before being given just six weeks to live after an advanced pancreatic cancer diagnosis is still here ten years later.
Researchers have uncovered a more efficient way to test people for kidney disease using a simple blood test that is affordable and although available in NHS laboratories is not yet widely used.
Most people who know me would say I make jokes about death all the time. I’ve never watched Game of Thrones, but someone asked me if I was going to start watching and I couldn’t help but tease that I don’t know how far I’ll get.
