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A woman wears a face mask while walking on Oxford Street durng the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

World must prepare for disease even deadlier than Covid - WHO chief

Spending time outdoors has so many benefits for us (photo: Adobe)

Nourish your mental health with time spent outdoors

In this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention handout graphic, from 2003, symptoms of one of the first known cases of the monkeypox virus are shown on a patient's.(Photo: CDC/Getty Images)

UKHSA want to ‘eliminate’ monkeypox after WHO announcement

The Covid-19 pandemic broke out in March 2020, and since then there have been six million related deaths worldwide. But is it finally over?

Covid ‘no longer global health emergency’ - is the pandemic over?

Major North Sea oil and gas producers are among those firms to have lobbied ministers more than 200 times since 2018. Picture: Carina Johansen/NTB Scanpix/AFP/Getty

Humza Yousaf urged to end 'open door' policy to oil and gas firms

A 56-year-old woman from the Guangdong province in China is the first recorded human casualty from the H3N8 bird flu.

China reports first human H3N8 bird flu death, according to WHO

Spanish authorities have issued advice amid a Dengue-fever outbreak in popular tourist hotspots

Spain issues advice to British tourists amid Dengue-fever outbreak

Locals in Jandaris (Syria) rescue an injured girl from the debris of a building destroyed by a major earthquake.

What is an Earthquake and how is it caused? Turkey Earthquake death count rising

The earthquake has killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria (Photo: Getty)

Turkey-Syria earthquake: death-toll said to be at least 8,700

Earthquake survivors sit around a fire in Iskenderun Turkey

WHO say Turkey and Syria earthquake deaths could be 20,000

air pollution car exhaust vehicle gasses traffic jam gv

Air pollution linked to depression by new study

While some fungus are benign, others pose a deadly threat (Picture: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change may be creating a deadly new fungal threat – Professor Neil Gow

Ministers will give “consideration” to a potential ban on disposable vape devices in Scotland, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has said.

Ministers to consider banning disposable vapes

United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has announced he will convene a new Climate Ambition Summit in September 2023, calling on world leaders to step up “with new, tangible and credible climate action to accelerate the pace of change” in the battle to tackle global warming

Was 2022 the last year of climate crisis denial?

Commuters make their way along a street during snowfall in Kabul on Thursday.

Taliban ban on female workers has ‘life-threatening consequences’ for Afghans

'Sweetshop' vapes should be banned amid alarming levels of use by children (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Vape flavours like candy floss and bubblegum should be banned – Scotsman comment

Research undertaken by Opinium found 92 per cent of those surveyed planned to keep their windows closed this winter - despite the risk of mould in homes

Scots tolerate mould due to energy costs, study suggests

'All parties are scared to tackle reform of the NHS'

How independence over healthcare policy will soon be a mirage - Brian Monteith

Leeanne MacPherson graduated with BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing. Picture: Neil Hanna Photography

Defusing nursing’s ticking timebomb - Liz Sturley

A registered nurse prepares a dose of a monkeypox vaccine. Picture: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

Monkeypox renamed due to 'racism and stigmatising' connotations

Powers passed to help in dealing with the impact of Brexit are being used for the first time to ensure Scotland’s drinking water aligns with standards set by the European Union.

Brexit mitigation powers used for first time to protect Scots drinking water

Syrups and liquid medicines have been banned in Indonesia while health officials investigate.

Indonesia bans cough syrups as 100 children dead of kidney failure

Experts found that people riding motorised electric bikes tended to take fewer and less physically demanding trips than conventional cyclists

E-bikes ‘unlikely to help people hit recommended exercise levels’

England captain Harry Kane will read a bedtime story on CBeebies for World Mental Health Day.

Harry Kane to read CBeebies Bedtime Story for World Mental Health Day

When is World Mental Health Day 2022 and how to get involved

Flood-affected people sit along with their relief supplies being distributed by the International Federation of Red Cross in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province.

At least 528 children killed in Pakistan floods, charity warns

Workers of 'Saylani welfare trust' cook food for flood-affected people in Hyderabad in Sindh province. Monsoon rains have submerged a third of Pakistan, claiming at least 1,190 lives since June and unleashing powerful floods that have washed away swathes of vital crops and damaged or destroyed more than a million homes.

Tens of thousands of people suffering from diseases after Pakistan floods

Monkeypox causes boils and sores to develop

Monkeypox: More than 60 cases now reported in Scotland

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency.

Monkeypox declared global public health emergency by WHO

File photo dated 21/12/2021 of a nurse puts on PPE in a ward for Covid patients

Covid triples across Europe and hospital admissions double, says WHO

The app will help people decide how much sun they should expose themselves to.

International app launched to gauge level of UV exposure from sun

A global warming protest in George Square when Glasgow hosted the COP16 climate change summit last year

Climate change will impact health and equality in Glasgow, warns WHO

A cyclist on Princes Street wearing an anti-pollution mask. Scotland is well-placed to lead the way in creating cleaner air, writes Richard Dixon. PIC: Jon Savage.

Scotland needs to drive harder towards clean air goals - Dr Richard Dixon

The World Health Organisation’s top monkeypox expert said she does not expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease.

WHO: Monkeypox will not turn into pandemic, but many unknowns

Undated handout file image issued by the UK Health Security Agency of the stages of Monkeypox. Monkeypox could have a "massive impact" on access to sexual health services, a top doctor has warned. Issue date: Saturday May 21, 2022.

Monkeypox outbreak ‘may have been sparked by sex at raves’ - WHO adviser

A man watching TV. More than one in ten cases of heart disease could be prevented if people slashed the amount of time they spent in front of the TV, a new study suggests. Picture: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

Watching too much TV increases heart disease risk, study suggests

The day falls just a few weeks ahead of Pride Month. Photo: Andrew Mulligan/PA.

What is IDAHOBIT 2022?

Surgeons perform an operation on the leg of a wounded Ukrainian soldier at a military hospital in Zaporizhzhia.

Ukraine-Russia: One in three in Ukraine with chronic illness such as cancer cann...

Maree Todd told the Scottish Parliament the number of infections north of the border stood at 13.

Covid Scotland: Mysterious hepatitis strain has no link to coronavirus vaccine

The cause of the outbreak is still not known

Hepatitis outbreak: Scots youngster has emergency liver transplant

Tests are still being conducted to determine how the children contracted hepatitis.

Six young children have emergency liver transplants after contracting hepatitis

Scotland has some of the best air quality in the UK, but some areas still have dangerously high levels of air pollution. Photo: rabbit75_cav / Canva Pro.

All you need to know about air pollution in Scotland

Guests attend a pandemic anniversary remembrance event and minute's silence at National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas in Staffordshire on Friday March 11, 2022. Picture: PA Wire

Minute's silence held for health and social care workers on pandemic anniversary

Health and social care workers are the focus of the tribute.

Covid Scotland: NHS charities to hold minute's silence for health workers

First News: Cars make schools suffer

The latest covid stats.

Covid Scotland: 24 more people die from virus in past 24 hours

Buddhist monks shout slogans and make three-finger salutes during a protest on February 10, 2021 in Yangon, Myanmar, a week after the country's military junta staged a coup against the elected National League For Democracy (NLD) government and detained de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo by Hkun Lat/Getty Images

Scottish medics pay tribute to health workers in Myanmar on anniversary of coup

From top left clockwise, songwriter Laura Mvula, The Wanted's Max George, singer Craig David, singer Ella Henderson, Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts and singer Tom Grennan, who are helping to launch a new NHS mental health campaign by appearing in a video reciting words from The Beatles song Help!, to encourage people struggling with their mental health to seek support. Photo: NHS England/PA Wire

In troubled times, we could all use some Help - Scotsman Comment

Covid Scotland: Linda Bauld urges pregnant people or those trying for a baby to take vaccine

Prof Linda Bauld urges pregnant people or those trying to get the vaccine

Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) in his laboratory at St Mary's Hospital in London in 1943 (Picture: Davies/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hedgehog study may have revealed a key fact about superbugs – Scotsman says

BBC Scotland's headquarters at Pacific Quay in Glasgow

BBC’s radio output needs a radical overhaul - Readers' Letters

Will Old Jardine's prediction of a new Covid variant emerging on the island of St Helena come to pass? We hope not (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

My month-by-month guide to 2022 may sound familiar – Stephen Jardine

Members of the public queue to receive a Covid-19 vaccine outside Hampden Park which is being used as a mass vaccination facility. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

World Health Organisation not in favour of large-scale lockdowns

Christmas is usually the busiest time of the year for the hospitality industry.

Scots need to ‘put in a tough Christmas’ to beat Omicron, says WHO

Vaccines should work against Omicron variant, WHO says (Photo: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Covid vaccines should still protect against severe illness from Omicron - WHO sa...

John Swinney, seen with Nicola Sturgeon, tests himself for Covid every time he leaves the house and is going to be in contact with other people (Picture: Russell Cheyne/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

We should learn benefits of Covid tests from S Korea and Swinney – Scotsman says

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Campers and walkers have been warned to avoid any naked flames to cut the risk of igniting 'tinder-dry' vegetation after a spring with very low rainfall

Wildfire warning as firefighters hurt in giant week-long blaze in the Highlands

Stephen Fry is a past winner of the comedy award. Picture: Getty Images

Flagship Fringe comedy awards plunged into crisis over loss of sponsor

Glasgow Warriors' Tom Jordan enjoyed a breakthrough season. (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)

The Scotsman Rugby awards: Players of season and unforgettable try