Archive for January, 2009
January 31, 2009
- India
- NHS contract for cabs linked to crime family
- Cuts wipe the smile from Clowndoctors
- University backing for euthanasia exhibition
- 'More dangerous' strain of superbug found in Scottish hospitals
January 30, 2009
- Child fitness class to beat obesity
- Tinned soup's hidden salt poses stomach cancer risk
- The dangers of driving under the influence of influenza
- 'Right to die' doctor allowed back to work after six-month ban
- Humble mint hailed as new painkiller
- Bed blocking reaches highest level for more than six months
January 29, 2009
- NHS fends off sickness
- Talking up health strategy
- 'Donate sperm' plea on wage slips
- Health centre images unveiled
- Family wins planning fight
- Level of flu cases creeps up in Lothians
- St John's steering group back in business
- Royal Edinburgh hospital set for move to Little France site
- NHS Lothian facing £17m bill to pay for gas and electricity
- Parents told: Don't give under-15s any alcohol
- New stem cell treatment can reverse crippling MS
January 28, 2009
- Price cut doubles medicine sales
- Hospital workers fined for smoking
- Chemicals in packaging 'may increase infertility'
- Legionnaires' disease bugs uncovered at Holyrood
- A third of Scotland's NHS buildings need upgraded
- Cancerous Capers: 'Chemotherapy is more beneficial to my health than my student lifestyle ever was'
January 27, 2009
- Warning over early breast cancer test
- Heart surgery broadcast live to conference
- Gang projects win cash share
- Short, sharp shock can boost your health
- Day's worth of salt in a kebab, finds study
- Men still more likely to die alcohol-related death
- Acupuncture little better than placebo, say researchers
- Don't use 'tan jab', warn skin experts
- Exercising can 'lower the risk of diabetes'
- Lothian waiting time targets missed for first time in a year
- Cancerous Capers: 'Please, you mustn't let me turn into a sanctimonious, religious, hippy prat'
- But we only expected seven – 'amazing' birth of octuplets
January 26, 2009
- Daily aspirin may stop liver damage
- Flats plan knocked down
- Photo boost in cancer treatment
- Cycling club set to expand
- Prostate cancer link to strong sex drive
- Hospitals adopt zero tolerance over staff hygiene
- IVF breakthrough can double chances of getting pregnant
- Q&A: Professor Neil McKeganey
- Charity aims to raise awareness of skin condition many choose to keep secret
- Why we shouldn't assume anything on organ donation
- On the Rounds
- Intense drama of those who choose death
- Inside Health: Last but not least: donating your body to advance medical science
- Care cuts leave OAPs in distress
- Cancerous Capers: 'You can walk around with a scary disease and feel hardly any different'
- Cannabis regrading has left the law in disarray, say critics
January 25, 2009
- Reductions are still on the rise
- NHS may take police cell role
- Medics call for more action to cut violence
- Research into environment's links to health
- Study into coffee 'link' to childhood leukaemia
- Alcohol can help men 'perform better' in bedroom
- Drug overdose numbers soaring
- SNP refuses to back plan to strip drug addicts of benefits
- The funny thing about cancer
January 24, 2009
- Obese face a ban on adopting
- Medics make no bones about corpse shortage
- Lewis Hamilton joins drive against boost restrictions
January 23, 2009
- Want to relax? Wait until 7:18pm
- Ministers unveils £1.45m health study
- Gael blows in to help out
- Older organs 'may be healthier for transplants'
- They only want you for your body…
- Care home threatened with closure amid neglect claims
January 22, 2009
- 37% of adults drink too much
- Thalidomide 'beats prostate cancer'
- Dementia carers 'abusive'
- Lothians flu cases halved
January 21, 2009
- UK pledges £100m to help beat polio
- UK pledges £100m to help beat polio
- Organ swap list tops 16 million ahead of target
- Organ swap list tops 16 million ahead of target
- Quit-smoking shows alight in Lothians
- Quit-smoking shows alight in Lothians
- Anti-obesity tablets cleared by EU for sale in UK pharmacies
- Anti-obesity tablets cleared by EU for sale in UK pharmacies
January 20, 2009
- Ceilidh reels in the cash
- Ceilidh reels in the cash
- Friend's sick child inspires
- Friend's sick child inspires
- Auction raises hospital funds
- Auction raises hospital funds
- City's patients 'want more'
- City's patients 'want more'
- Murals a taste of good health
- Murals a taste of good health
- Course boosts health skills
- Course boosts health skills
- Mental health campaign to target students
- Mental health campaign to target students
- New alcohol warning for early stages of pregnancy
- New alcohol warning for early stages of pregnancy
- New hope of cancer 'road block'
- New hope of cancer 'road block'
- Sturgeon vows extra specialist staff to care for young
- Sturgeon vows extra specialist staff to care for young
- Twins in 'stable' condition after emergency airlift
- Twins in 'stable' condition after emergency airlift
- £54m raised by NHS Lothian from land and property sales
- £54m raised by NHS Lothian from land and property sales
- Q&A: David Liddell
- Q&A: David Liddell
- Police want ambulance staff to deal with drunks
- Police want ambulance staff to deal with drunks
- Teacher believes unusual step is help to him and students
- Teacher believes unusual step is help to him and students
- Sue Gyford: A new vision of hope for the blind
- Sue Gyford: A new vision of hope for the blind
- Could this be the best job in the world?
- Could this be the best job in the world?
January 19, 2009
- City ME group seeks volunteers
- Healthy foods are hard to stomach
- Dementia risk for stressed and shy
- Bid to cut down on drug deaths
- Medicine danger for babies
- Breakthrough could improve IVF success
- Medics' legal advice office opens in city
- Sick Kids to get more medics in £32m specialist care boost
- £650,000 boost to improve drugs treatment in Lothians
- Young smokers feel no pressure
- Student hails bionic hand that transformed his life
- Dr John Garner: Health visitors deliver a service, let's not lose it
- Stop playing 'Russian roulette' over drugs
- Injection of luxury at city health clinic
- New dental and health centres to be built in Scotland
- Cut methadone use or you won't turn tide of drug addiction, ministers are warned
January 18, 2009
- New hope for blindness cure
- Doggie tale tells of effects of alcoholism
- New GP surgery for West End after £11.42m funding boost
- Princess Anne hands charity a royal reason to be cheerful
- Blindness cure will be pioneered in Scotland
January 17, 2009
January 16, 2009
- Swayze released from hospital
- Class shows laughter is the best medicine
- NHS pilot plan earns praise
- Arsenic found in mineral drink
- Study to find why abattoir workers immune to E. coli
January 15, 2009
- Sexual health clinic approved
- Caring vision to be outlined
- A nice little restaurant, a candlelit bite for two – and 7,842½ calories
January 14, 2009
- Wildlife centre rabies warning
- Study dives in to test water
- GPs issue flu warning to those most at risk
- Couple raise £20,000 in the memory of tragic son
- Transplants 'given to 800 non-UK patients'
- Superbugs in decline despite doctors failing on hygiene
- Lyndsay Moss: Opponents of animal testing urged to rethink
- Birth defect fears as mothers miss out on second scan
January 13, 2009
- No space for parking plea
- Superbug levels falling across Lothian
- Leader is appointed to implement findings of ME report
- One-to-one sessions to help smokers stub out their habit
- Patients in pain say A&E care is poor
- Women suffer more pain from arthritis
- Coffee overdose causes visions
- Party's 15-point plan for safer hospitals
- Q&A: Dr Nigel Carter, chief executive of the British Dental Health Foundation
- 'Let everyone have a vote on assisted dying'
- Police to quiz nurses over C diff deaths of 18 patients
January 12, 2009
- Penrose leads HIV inquiry
- Help needed at library for ME sufferers
- Mishaps at home put 1300 children in hospital
- MSP calls for zero tolerance on NHS attacks
- Carers' travel time causes complications
- Flu fails to halt operations in the Lothians
- Peer will lead blood inquiry
- Widow hopes to use stored sperm
- HRT drugs can shrink brain
- Burning Issue: Should obese couples be refused the opportunity to adopt children?
- Risk of complications from epidural anaesthetics much lower than thought
- Selecting embryos lacking a gene linked to disease raises both hopes and fears
- Maddy Halliday: Lifestyle changes will reduce the risk of stroke
- Mother gives birth two days after she collapsed and 'died'
- Using mouthwash could increase risk of cancer by nine times, claim scientists
January 11, 2009
- Golf event for Parkinson's
- Cash support for retreat centre
- Charity seeks help to get to heart of nation's health problem
- Group focuses on changes to MS treatment
- MSP plans Bill to put brakes on parking charges at ERI
- Eliminating cancer risk is 'priceless'
- Evidence mounts on overeating and obesity link to gene
January 10, 2009
- Winter crisis to hit NHS, claims Labour
- A Wii word of warning to gamers
- New baby hope for millions of infertile couples
- Hospital flowers nipped in the bud by NHS hygiene police
January 9, 2009
- Walk yourself fit in 2009
- Sedative use for dementia patients slated
- Planners back 'care village' on green belt land near ERI
- 'Designer' fear after cancer-free baby is born
January 8, 2009
- NHS hospitals work together
- Risk warning for meningitis
- Sexual health clinic plan for old hospital
- Sickness bug hits 340 on cruise
- Wife, you owe me $1.5m for kidney
- Obesity campaign funded by 'wrong' food firms
- Alzheimer's 'death risk' brings call for drug rethink
- 'Victorian' ordeal for freezing NHS patients
- Quarter of shops break law by selling cigarettes to children
January 7, 2009
- New leader at research centre
- Rock on for Marie Curie
- Dawe praises organisation for lobbying
- Patrick Swayze speaks of his cancer 'hell'
- Scotland bears the brunt of flu cases
- Porridge boosts your sex life, claims firm
- Is baby boom heading for a bust?
- Judge's ultimatum on hepatitis deaths probe
- 'Shameful' toll of medical experiments on monkeys in Scotland
January 6, 2009
- Grant for cancer study
- Hospital given a grand sum
- 40,000 calls to NHS 24 at New Year
- Skin cancer infection risk
- Hoy backs a Monster event
- Bug outbreak kills baby and sickens six in neonatal unit
- Capital charity delivers aid to Gaza
- Architects appointed to draw up £21m centre
- Measles: UK named and shamed for vaccination rate failure
- NHS worker loses job fight over star's file
- MSP's mother-in-law in 8-hour trolley wait
- Alzheimer's research hit by lack of brains
- Q&A: Billy Watson
- Briton dies of rabies after returning from holiday
- Top London clinic offers hope to city burns victim
January 5, 2009
- Apple chief quells fears over health
- School's out for Sarajevo visitors
- Flu cases set to rise as at-risk group fails to take free jabs
- Fundraising midwife is off to Malawi
- New parking system looking healthy
- Q&A: Alice Tuff
- On the Rounds
- Lyndsay Moss: How business can help us cope with tough times ahead
- Stalemate over embryo talks with church
- Family tragedies bring home harsh message that meningitis can strike at anyone
- Sturgeon: Ending hospital parking charges would cost tens of millions
- One in seven Scottish teenagers self-harms
January 4, 2009
- Cancer that 'comes back from the dead'
- Study stresses obesity link to ovarian cancer
- Scheme has changed my life
- New study brings cure for baldness a step closer
- Detox products 'only cleanse you of cash'
January 3, 2009
- Health experts call for last orders on 'recession sessions' of cheap drinks
- Plan for new jab to eradicate chickenpox
- Phones fingered in spread of superbugs
- 'Chemical cleaner' offers hangover hope
- Doctors say golfers using latest generation of titanium drivers should wear earplugs to protect them from noise
January 2, 2009
- Healthy living adverts call for 'lifestyle revolution'
- NHS 'paying £200 an hour'
- 'Memory book' to aid dementia battle
- I won't let cancer spoil my chances of dream job
January 1, 2009
- Teachers want ban on school bells over health and safety
- Teachers want ban on school bells over health and safety
- MSP calls for action on child health
- MSP calls for action on child health
- Car parking barriers put in at hospitals
- Car parking barriers put in at hospitals
- Q&A: Ryan Norton, communications manager for the Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland
- Q&A: Ryan Norton, communications manager for the Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland
- Recipe for success? Salt and fat, admits McDonald's chief
