Health

Dogs have a habit of winning hearts, but scientists say they can also help keep them healthy.

It’s amazing what time in the wilderness can do. When we first met A, she was nervous, suspicious and clearly intent on ­keeping us at arm’s length. She’d come to us as part of our Venture Mòr Wilderness Therapy programme – offered to young people who are ­having trouble engaging with or accessing mainstream services and who want to make sense of what’s going on for them emotionally.

Val Brown reports on the inspiring work of EcoVeg, a farming collective that ignores caste, class and gender

More than a third of full-time workers in the UK are looking for a flexible job which allows them to balance home and work commitments, a report has claimed.

It was just two months ago that patients were encouraged to graffiti farewell messages on the walls of the building that has treated thousands of children for more than 150 years before a planned move to a brand new hospital.

An app to track ticks and prevent Lyme disease has been launched in the Highlands, with funding from the European and UK space agencies.

Work has started on a project to turn a former lunatic asylum into a luxury housing development.

A Scottish doctors’ surgery will close after being unable to fill GP vacancies.

Two British holidaymakers, including a Scottish man, have died from Legionnaires’ disease after returning home from the same hotel in Bulgaria.

To most Scots, they may not provide the most appetising of meals, yet insects have been at the centre of many people’s culinary world for centuries.

Humans have always been dependent on and deeply connected to their natural surroundings, writes Catherine Calderwood

Sitting less and moving more often is associated with a lower risk of early death in middle aged and older people, according to scientists.

Health officials are warning Scots about travelling to the coastal resort of Hurghada after an outbreak of E.coli in the same resort where a couple died in suspicious circumstances.

Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has been urged to apologise after it emerged that a flagship waiting time target has been breached almost 100,000 times this year.

We have learned in recent days of the ­personal tragedy and ­courage of Mr Richard Selley, a former head teacher from Perthshire, as he ­confronts the late stages of motor neurone disease. He plans to die by means of assisted suicide in Switzerland but is campaigning for the law to change in Scotland to allow assisted suicide here.