Archive for March, 2009
March 31, 2009
- Health chief fires out TB warning
- Sick Kids to go Dutch for new hospital's designers
- Erskine gift will increase care
- Sturgeon reveals her family's struggles with cancer
- Magic bullet targets and kills MRSA at the speed of light
- 'Shameful' one-year wait for drug addicts seeking help
- Don't laugh, but Botox could help beat depression
- Union calls for hospital smoking ban to be dropped
- Espresso training: coffee can take the pain out of going to the gym
- Inquiry into infected blood scandal will 'name names' of those to blame
- Obesity drug use soars by 25 times
March 30, 2009
- Project manager in place
- Iris ID devices are blurred by eye problems
- Don't write off drug addicts warns minister
- Consultants plan has not cost taxpayer
- Casualty waiting times miss target
- Sick Kids to be in a class of its own with cutting edge school
- Five-in-one pill halves heart attacks and strokes
March 29, 2009
- Patients' bright ideas
- Fall in number of C.diff cases
- Epilepsy care 'reinvigorated'
- Call to double heart failure nurse numbers
- Euan's a real high achiever 18 months after getting a new heart
- Ten teenage girls a day being diagnosed with chlamydia
- Hay fever costs businesses £7bn
- Read all about cutting stress
- Video-game violence can improve eyesight, study finds
- Overturn NHS ban on breast cancer drug, firm demands
March 28, 2009
- Relief as disabled boy wins £5m deal
- Infertility fears over plan to cut chlamydia screening
- Hygiene scores on the doors to protect diners
March 27, 2009
- Care standards play visits city nursing homes
- Group to eat chocolate in trafficking awareness drive
- Fireflies may be infertility key
- Hospital blunders in Scotland cost taxpayers £36m pay-outs
- Cerebral palsy boy to get £5.2m in record NHS damages pay-out
- Child protection in Lothian is 'as stretched as in Haringey'
March 26, 2009
- 90% of schoolgirls get cervical cancer jag
- Woman who claims surgeon needlessly removed her breast in £30k legal battle
- Love hurts… in fact you really can die from a broken heart
- SNP and Labour close in on drinks alliance
- Nine out of ten schoolgirls get jab to beat cervical cancer
- Now even a nice hot cuppa can give you cancer, say scientists
March 25, 2009
- Laser eye treatment firms 'play down surgery risks'
- Doctors must take account of patient's final wishes
- Drug firms win right to offer NHS cut-price treatments
- Sex disease rates hit record high in Scottish teenagers
- 'Poor advice and hard-sell tactics' on laser surgery prove real eye-opener
- 'Zero tolerance' to fight killer bugs
- Granny praises 'wee hero' after Kyle, 6, saves her life
- Nine out of ten schoolgirls have received cervical cancer vaccine dose
- 'Nanny state' health ban on full-fat milk for 3-year-olds
- Billions spent but culture of addiction worsens
March 24, 2009
- Minister wants to ban vaccines
- Unemployment can help men's health, says minister
- Time to face the music if you're in pain, says Scots expert
- Drugs U-turn brings kidney cancer boost
- Brain tumour is a ticking timebomb in brave Kirsty's head
- 'Optimistic' Margo unveils right-to-die Holyrood Bill
- Need new cartilage? Grow your own
March 23, 2009
- Music may restore sight after stroke
- Hospital build gets started
- Chicken may prolong life
- Plan to keep tuberculosis at bay in Scotland
- Scots team hopes for breakthrough with synthetic blood tests
- Smokers to get £50 a month 'rewards' for kicking the habit
- Ian McKee: Refreshing lack of dogma as board elections go ahead
- When you count contents of your wallet in drinks
- 1600 Lothian alcoholics are claiming disability benefits
- More cancer patients cured – but Britain lags behind
March 21, 2009
March 20, 2009
- Mental health aid launched
- Focus on care home choices
- Parents lose baby life bid
- More young women carry condoms
- Doctors can end baby's treatment
- Fitness: Back to work
- Rowling's midwife struck off after child death
- Maggots don't heal wounds faster – and they're a pain
- Inventor's multi-function walking aid that really sticks out…
- Couples who seek IVF will be warned of higher birth defect risk
- Cancer survivor confronts the health secretary on 62-day wait
March 19, 2009
- Health centre is on course
- Hospital ruling 'months away'
- Care home gets singled out for praise
- NHS use of private care on increase
- Discussion on tailored drugs for patients
- Drama classes for NHS staff in drive to improve care
- Hewitt leads calls to protect mercy-killing relatives
- Scotland must wait two years for newborn blood test
- Seizures forced complete change of lifestyle for ad exec
March 18, 2009
- Cash for Kids hailed
- New health centre plan
- Handwashing to be improved
- New director takes on top NHS research role
- Ideas book will help carers with no support
- Midwife recruiting drive after baby boom in Lothians
- Scots and Irish living in England 'twice as likely to die of alcohol abuse'
- Daily drinks worst for liver
- Alzheimer's link to epilepsy found
- Ian Swanson: No half measures in Scots booze battle
- All men may be screened in fight against prostate cancer
March 17, 2009
- End of winter doesn't mean end of colds
- Patient's whiskers get the chop after 45 years for heart charity
- Free hotel is checked in for Sick Kids plans
- Appalling care cost hundreds of lives
- NHS patients receiving private treatment doubles
- Staff crisis threatens cancer care despite £20m windfall
- Moderately obese? It may cost you four years of life
March 16, 2009
- Site chosen for hospital
- Report boost for care home
- Legal aid for cancer charity
- Nurses given new care and respect rules
- Health workers urged to cut medicine use to save £3m waste
- Call for all over-50 men to be given a prostate cancer test
- Pensioner attacked by kamikaze crows
- Cancer boost as Western is handed £5m for equipment
- Call to end blind bar on disability allowance
- 'Obesity gene' linked to development of ovarian cysts syndrome, researchers say
- John Garner: Bridging the great divide between hospitals and GPs
- Staff to sue over night-shift cancer
- Beating obesity looks like child's play as experts back 'active' game consoles
March 15, 2009
- Strokes focus of art contest
- One patient a day self-harms
- Award success for city charity
- High praise for nursing home
- Miracle girl Kelsey, 7, to fly the flag for Sick Kids
- Big-hearted readers buy Beau a new bed
- Fundraiser to tackle Greenland after surgeon heals knee injury
- Pressure grows to keep Royal Edinburgh at Morningside site
- Failures over Baby P revealed in report
- Health policies could be damaging
- Alzheimer's drugs offer promise for stroke victims
- One in ten retiring to a pension of less than £10,000
- 'Piranha bite' antibody action discovered in HIV patients
- More cerebral collaboration needed
- Experts hope that 'fat controller' can help fight obesity
- UK 'to follow Scotland's example' over alcohol prices
- 200 cancer victims left to die by NHS
March 14, 2009
March 13, 2009
- Diabetes up by a third
- Rally round for Rome trip
- Plastic baby bottle plea
- Weight-loss operations quadruple
- Hospital sees two baby transplants in one day
- Is a choc tax the last option in the box for tackling obesity?
March 12, 2009
- Blood leak clue to strokes
- Face mask 'can curb heart risk'
- Abuse victims' letters of hope go on display
- Hospital gets ready to mark its bicentenary
- 'Chocolate tax' to fight obesity rejected
- Research links strokes with arteries in brain
- 16-year-olds to get vote on health boards
- Family of heart attack victim call for tests and funding
- Jade Goody's plight sparks increase in number screened for cancer
- Longer GP opening hours branded wasteful 'PR exercise' by doctors
- Scots scientists say wearing a mask in traffic reduces heart attack risk
March 11, 2009
- Passive smoking poses pet threat
- Depressed Bill Oddie checks into hospital
- Breakthrough for asbestos victims
- Children born early struggle at maths
- Heston Blumenthal declares return of the Fat Duck
- New scanner highlights importance of genes to intelligence
- Worth one's salt? Too much sparks an addiction, say scientists
- Good for health, great for the drinks industry – expert backs cut-price alcohol ban
- Stuart Blake: Top-ups could cure cancer treatment woes
- Jade Goody's wedding: the pictures that will touch millions of viewers
- Cut-price deals and cash-back offers …Scotland's drug care of the future
March 10, 2009
- Study shows pregnant women migraine link
- Study shows pregnant women migraine link
- Hospital gets £4800 boost
- Hospital gets £4800 boost
- Migraine threat to mothers-to-be
- Migraine threat to mothers-to-be
- Credit crunch aids smokers' efforts to quit tobacco habit
- Credit crunch aids smokers' efforts to quit tobacco habit
- Coe's healthy message for families
- Coe's healthy message for families
- Holyrood staff hold cookery competition
- Holyrood staff hold cookery competition
- Parents battle to raise £3100 for bed for spina bifida boy
- Parents battle to raise £3100 for bed for spina bifida boy
- Sheila Duffy: Stubbing out tobacco adverts lights up future
- Sheila Duffy: Stubbing out tobacco adverts lights up future
- Tests breakthrough set to save thousands from ovarian cancer
- Tests breakthrough set to save thousands from ovarian cancer
- Prince Charles is 'dangerous, dodgy quack who exploits the vulnerable'
March 9, 2009
- Salmond visits dementia project
- Fish suppers make for brighter boys
- Weather link to headaches
- Drug decision brings hope of relief to eczema sufferers
- Widening gulf between rich and poor is damaging mental health
- On the Rounds
- Scotswomen urged to speak up and seek help for 'the last medical taboo'
- Life science sector continues to grow despite tough times
- Doctor, I have this feeling I'm being rushed
- Laura Cummings: A boom in busts for cosmetic surgeons
- Fears of brain drain from Scotland as Obama lifts stem-cell ban
- Call the superbug tsar, patients urged
- Study finds increased depression amongst Scots caused by recession
March 8, 2009
- Taking regular naps could increase risk of diabetes
- Cancer funding concern raised
- 'GP patient lists must shrink'
- Mercy Corps staff kicked out of Sudan
- Woman holds hammer at Jade Goody's hospital bedside
- Wake-up call as napping is found to raise diabetes risk
- Government tells public to blow whistle on NHS hygiene failures
- Fears for city's homeless as shake-up closes night shelter
- Stem-cell boost for stroke victims
March 7, 2009
March 6, 2009
- Robin Williams cancels shows for heart op
- System is new labour
- Pupils shun healthy food
- Obama set to back stem cell research
- Supporters flood to Sick Kids website
- Cancer teenagers to benefit from banquet
- Celebrity chef shuts Fat Duck as number of ill diners tops 400
- MSP calls for superbug tsar to fight hospital acquired infections
- GPs 'giving diabetics pills before diet tips'
March 5, 2009
- 'Don't put animals above ill children'
- Cycle scheme speeds up
- Teams investigate salmonella outbreak
- Man nails his hand to floor
- Royal plans ready by end of the year
- Take plunge for Sick Kids
- Greens 'pointed out problem of empty homes a year ago'
- Study into link between injury and delirium
- Job insecurity affects men more than women, finds study
- Sports in middle age add two years to life
- Plans to take on hospital superbugs stretch staff, say nurses
- Child vaccine may prevent diabetes
- Freak trip forces victim to fight for new life
March 4, 2009
- 100 drink deaths a year
- New jab hope for asthma sufferers
- Health chiefs pick up prizes
- Smallpox 'clue' to cancer spread
- Businesses in health debate
- Overweight Britons claim millions in benefits
- McConnell backs Sick Kids' campaign
- Pedal-power push for women
- Bionic eye offers vision of the future
- Number suffering heart attacks falls for first time in the Lothians
- We need a heavy tax on chocolate to fight obesity, says doctor
- Bionic eye helps blind man see again
March 3, 2009
- Stillbirth investment call
- Wanted: Women needed to eat chocolate – for science
- Boost for breast feeding bid
- Planning delay claim dismissed
- 'Don't forget older drinkers'
- Music school sounds out gig theory
- Wheelchair users to get £16m boost to services
- Two drinks a day raises pancreatic cancer risk
- High cases of lung cancer in UK linked to asbestos
- Why Whisky Galore! should come with a health warning
- NHS throwing cash at bad ideas, GPs claim
- Sports strips with brand names blamed over youth drinking
- Quarter of people with new C diff have died
- Cancer patient sent home to die by taxi
March 2, 2009
- Safety fears fuelling rise in childhood obesity rates
- Get down to business and hit the streets
- Care project to double in size
- Parental fears for child safety fuel country's obesity crisis
- Parental fears for child safety fuel country's obesity crisis
- Scientists fear threat of growing 'super-flu'
- 'Missing' OAP found in hospital
- Older drinkers are 'demographic time-bomb'
- Researchers develop viruses to kill off superbugs
- Children's nurse is a paedophile
- Two hours of TV doubles asthma risk
- Family wins damages from GP and chemist over OAP's death
- Doctors are ordered to take more notice of dying patients' last wishes
- Public's trust threatened by plan to share confidential data including patient notes
- Lyndsay Moss: So many treatments and limited money builds in unfairness
- Why we should know about the pill sweeteners
- Baby boomer drink habits "may be time-bomb"
- Online poll: What do you think of the Scottish government's crackdown on alcohol pricing?
- Scottish government targets binge drinking culture with radical pricing plans
March 1, 2009
- Launch of new drug to fight cancer cells
- Health warning on dirty water coolers
- Available bed space plunges
- Nurses in plea for more staff
- Watchdog turns up heat on water coolers
- Appeal for help to give carers respite
- Superbug experts focused on wrong toxin for years
- Grant Stott thanked for 'saving listener's life'
- Council sorry for three-hour ambulance wait
- Men have armpits, backs and chests waxed for charity
- Warning over cold remedies for children
