Archive for April, 2009
April 30, 2009
- Fair will be in best of health
- Stepping up walk to work effort
- Health chiefs 'slow to react' over Mexican swine flu fears
- Edinburgh 'well prepared' to face swine flu
- Young children 'can be driven insane by bullying'
- Wrinklies slow on the uptake
- Walking to school hits all-time low
- Bill Jamieson: It's far too early to be hitting the panic button
- China's secret tea revealed as fat-busting wonder cuppa by scientists
- Swine flu in Scotland may have begun passing from person to person
- Three more swine flu cases confirmed
- Swine flu couple released from hospital
- Further Scottish swine flu case 'probable'
April 29, 2009
- Zebrafish hold key to motor neurone cure
- Lothians women less likely to be screened for breast cancer
- NHS bosses left red-faced by spelling blunder at hospital entrance
- Newlyweds given all-clear after swine flu test
- Face mask sales soar as swine flu panic sweeps the Lothians
- Working while ill risks sickness later
- Wine can help you live longer
- Superbug found in supermarket salads
- Virus was ignored for decades
- Analysis: World forced to play a waiting game with unpredictable virus
- Breakthrough for MS victims as pills set to replace jabs
- GBL: The deadly drug that's still legal
- Rush to buy surgical masks but experts say they are useless
- What to look out for and how you can avoid infection
- Three more swine flu cases in Britain, PM reveals
April 28, 2009
- Glowing praise for care home
- Nurses star in dignity DVD
- Campaign has bone to pick
- Business case nears its end
- Film sparks tobacco ad ban row
- Charity bids to raise the 'desperately low' awareness of MS
- Edinburgh teacher tells of swine flu panic on Mexico trip
- Don't sleep alongside baby, parents waned
- Most terminal cancer patients hope to die at home – yet only 1 in 4 does
- Sugar levels in children's cereals are still 'shocking' reveals watchdog
- Holiday plans lie in tatters as UK flights to Mexico are cancelled
- Skin cancer cases on the rise in Scotland
- Swine flu latest: Falkirk woman 'doing OK' - father
- Scottish swine flu victims named
April 27, 2009
- Desk-bound workers feel more stressed
- Call for Kirk to give training on HIV
- Golfers raise hospital cash
- Musical is just what the young doctors ordered
- ADHD link to too little sleep
- Britons told avoid Mexico
- Faithful revive an ancient tradition
- Hearing support in Scotland is 'among best in the world'
- City scientists close to cure for disease
- Scotland leads way with standards for hearing services
- Bowel cancer campaign at city hospital
- Tobacco firms 'should face tougher fines'
- Eating fatty foods may be triggered by survival mechanism
- Passengers surprised at lack of flu checks
- Analysis: Caution, not panic is best approach to outbreaks
- GPs to prescribe reading and workouts to beat depression
- Scottish swine flu victim 'doing ok'
- Mark Auld: Raising profile vital in ongoing fight against MS
- Britons advised not to go to Mexico
- Desk-bound workers feel more stressed
- Call for Kirk to give training on HIV
- ADHD link to too little sleep
- Faithful revive an ancient tradition
- Scotland leads way with standards for hearing services
- Eating fatty foods may be triggered by survival mechanism
- Passengers surprised at lack of flu checks
- Analysis: Caution, not panic is best approach to outbreaks
- Travellers left high and dry by advice
April 26, 2009
- Poor diet putting eyesight at risk
- Art therapists in prison talks
- Shops use film to fight cigarette display ban
- Analysis: Some protection is in place – but impact of this virus is impossible to predict
- Children struck down with MS
- Kissing banned and medics, not bouncers, stand guard at bars as flu epicentre falls eerily silent
- Scotland on swine flu alert: two in hospital
April 25, 2009
- Call for drugs tests for everyone arrested
- Obama makes $10bn pledge to find cure for global killer 'in our time'
- Private hospitals feeling the pinch
- Diet queen Amanda Hamilton accuses rival of creating drama without solving eating disorders
- Schools to inform parents if their children leave at lunchtime
- Pandemic alert over deadly swine flu
- Hospital tea bar volunteers wake up and smell the Aroma as NHS bosses trial new high street-style coffee bars
- Global alert on deadly flu strain
April 24, 2009
- Number of children with meningitis at record low
- New device offers earlier detection of malaria
- Call for GPs to prescribe experimental drug for MS
- Lee Randall: My cloning project gets right to the heart of the matter
- Health chiefs axe plan to send city patients to West Lothian
April 23, 2009
- Cancer drop-in centre is opened
- New chief in fight against chronic pain
- Boy swallows Valium tablets
- Nurses call for more training
- Kenny's got pedal power
- Therapists hail Ugandan spirit
- Medic takes on role of helping patients suffering chronic pain
- Traffic clampdown after OAP dies outside hospital
- Lothian mums-to-be most likely to be infected with HIV
- Patients are alerted as details of 1,400 stolen
- Patient 'may have been given excess methadone' before death
- Wanted: Guinea pigs to eat free chocolate in name of science
- Fat will be lifesaver if pioneering stem cell therapy can beat MS
- Margo secures MSP support to debate 'right to die' Bill
- Thousands of homes at risk from 'cancer gas'
- OAP killed in hospital car park was visiting her sick husband
April 22, 2009
- Pensioner hit by hospital van dies
- Sharp rise in HIV cases in Scotland
- Morning-after pill ad gets first screening
- Young girls 'susceptible' to morning-after pill ad
- Stage set for booze drama
- Hundreds of carers stage Capital protest
- £115m care centre to start
- Nicotine gum linked to mouth cancer
- Sandwiches found to have same salt as nine bags of crisps
- Elderly stroke patient left for 20 hours without food or any fluids
- Chances of beating breast cancer at their highest for 40 years, say doctors
- Public inquiry to be held into 18 deaths at superbug hospital
- Child health alert over use of Bonjela
- Chris Hoy launches pioneering new Sick Kids unit
- Founder of St John's Hospital campaign dying from cancer
- Doctor makes cloned babies bid
April 21, 2009
- Treatment for health staff
- Eating burnt meat boosts cancer risk
- Suspensions double in NHS
- Wine boosts cancer survival rates
- Asbestos law to be challenged by insurers
- Fizzy drinks 'don't help gastric cases'
- Fundraising efforts sound good
- Woman,77, dies after being hit by hospital van
- Walnuts could be a winner in cancer battle
- TV's Lorraine urges women to race for life
- Jade Goody asked her mother to help end her life
- Gay and transgender mental health addressed
- Dentists take a bite out their time for Romanian children
- Millions spent, but genetic cures have proved to be a false dawn, says scientist
- Man with tunnel vision to raise funds by climb to Everest
- Scottish MS charity 'should break away from London'
- Alcohol poisonings soar to 100 each month
April 20, 2009
- Sick Kids is smoke-free
- Chopper beats fog to save mother-to-be
- Breastfeeding helps health, says study
- Fraud advice for NHS staff
- Killer nurse is struck off
- £2m funding boost aims to help mental health services for teens
- Rehearsal of flu pandemic set to begin
- Medication led to deaths of elderly patients, jury rules
- Plea for fundraisers to go extra mile for leukaemia
- Scientists test mental illness link with gluten
- Ethics body brands bill on suicide 'dangerous'
- Stars lobby PM on malaria nets
- Parents of dead girl to sue NHS for radiation overdose
- Tough new targets to fight drugs scourge at grassroots level
- Poll finds four out of ten people cannot name one symptom of multiple sclerosis
- London charity chiefs hit back after Rowling quits MS role
- On the Rounds
- How tiny pump changed life of young diabetic
- Nothing's lost in translation as NHS' interpreter bill soars
- Heart transplants run in our family
- Fat-busting pills go on sale over the counter
April 19, 2009
- Steps to better health
- Help for NHS volunteers
- Property firm cleans up for Sick Kids HQ
- More addicts stay on the road to recovery say health chiefs
- Government-funded helpline 'offers drug-taking advice'
- Drive to sort out traffic 'chaos' around St John's
- Devolving classification for drugs 'would be problematic'
- Carers find their voice in massive city Protest
- Drink and drug services shake-up aims to tackle Scots addiction crisis
- Genetic hope for MS and cancer patients
April 18, 2009
- Stem cell therapy hope for blind
- Support floods in for whistleblowing nurse
- Tories condemn 'soft touch' approach to Class A drugs
- MoonWalk: Stories of hope and triumph that will inspire you to think… pink
- Ban helps heavy smokers to cut their drinking levels
April 17, 2009
- Poster drive wins award at conference
- Mumps hits 9 across region
- Food poisoning: store link
- Funding sows hope that team can find cure for blight
- Partnership to tackle drug-alcohol abuse
- Don't take that last bite – you are destroying the world
- Bold designs to brighten up a child's stay at new Sick Kids
April 16, 2009
- Council denies funds for Ellie's treatment
- Tune in to music night
- Prostate cancer research boost
- Jab drive for school-leavers
- Police donate electronic pads to aid cancer patients
- £1.2 million boost for project helping elderly Asian women
- Heart device is a plug-in life-saver
- Exercise while pregnant could improve your baby's health
- Manikins set to hone rural health professionals' skills
- Bone marrow donor leads campaign
- Fifteen-minute 'female vasectomy' then back to work the next day
- Nurse axed for abuse exposé wants NHS to help whistleblowers
- MS sufferers demand emergency talks over charity's split threat
- Six hundred new cleaners to fight hospital superbugs
April 15, 2009
- Life of luxury awaits as care provider plots second home
- Drug risk to unborn babies
- Lothian women unaware of breast cancer signs
- Nurse who filmed neglect is guilty of misconduct
- Vitamin deficiency may increase risks of asthma
- Oxfam: Sick people are 'hassled into work' or lose benefits
- Hospitals hit by soaring bill for costly medicines
- Multiple births may raise risk of postnatal depression
- Number of women on fertility treatment highest ever
- One in six women 'has no idea' on breast cancer
- Buying drugs on the internet can seriously damage your health
- Junk food makes children fat but happy
- Isabella Goldie: It's time to get serious over mental health
April 14, 2009
- ME expert to speak to sufferers at city conference
- Health chiefs give boost to Lothian jobs
- Drug addicts get guarantee on waiting time for rehab
- Hospital door facelift
- Top marks for care home
- Aspirin 'causes brain to bleed'
- Bid to raise £500,000 for teenage cancer unit at Western
- Mev Brown: Getting hooked on 'zero tolerance' is wrong
- Rare 'farmer's lung' disease claims life of trainee teacher, 21
April 13, 2009
- Sick boy raises £1000
- Hospital radio in tune with patients
- ME charity in plea for help
- Influence of home is elementary
- City praise for social workers
- Clinic to perk up old hospital
- Figures show boost to Capital care service for pensioners
- Britain's fattest teenager sheds 12st
- Minister: 'NHS is failing veterans'
- Nurse struck off after 8 complaints says ruling was unfair
- Round-the-clock helpline can be lifeline for those who have dementia – and their carers
- Dr John Garner: Hats off to nurses' headgear: they were uniformly good
- To Budapest by bike – just like his grandfather
April 12, 2009
- Safe in the sun poster contest
- GP practice awards instituted
- Bionic hand waves hello in China launch
- Former sick kid Aimi aims to help buy New Pyjamas
- A fifth of NHS Lothian staff claim to have been bullied
- Special nurses to help young mothers
- Boys should get cervical cancer jab too, say experts
- Stem cell treatment for sight loss could be in use by 2012
- 'Infertile' women are still able to produce eggs, claim scientists
April 11, 2009
April 10, 2009
- Thanks for an 'amazing' gift
- Believe in ME report finally put to paper
- Medical students' anger at Hyslop's U-turn over fees
- Scots stem cell work is tied up with China
- Internet leading rise in DIY diagnosis
- Promotion piles on the pressure and can damage mental health
- Two left feet? Your ears are to blame
April 9, 2009
- Island event earns Marie Curie £6500
- Hope in search for stillborns' graves
- Bigger feet forward
- Safety alert on mouthwash
- Blindness cure could come from stem cells
- Wonder drug could prevent scarring
- Scots NHS inferior to England and needs radical surgery – think tank
- 'Collective effort' needed to tackle alcohol abuse
April 8, 2009
- ME financial help is at hand
- Cancer leaflet published to aid patients
- Work starts on extension to house scanner
- Ageing and rising population puts the strain on hospitals
- Lothian winning superbug war
- Dementia patients tracked by satellite
- Diabetics miss out on mental support, says charity report
- Row as £677m overpaid to Irish health system
- MRSA screening will go ahead despite concerns
- Health chiefs hit back at tobacco vote threat
- Fat chance of promotion for women – while overweight men rewarded
April 7, 2009
- Marie Curie seeks runners
- Drop in hospital stays
- HIV group to benefit from choir's concert
- Chemical spill medics decontaminated
- Transplant awareness plan
- Exercise helps to save lives
- University forges healthy link to China with training scheme
- Scientific myths persist despite evidence
- Sunbeds blamed for rise in skin cancer
- Special needs facility facing closure after funding runs dry
- New hope for babies hooked on drugs after care appeal
- 'Axe funding for hospital chaplains and spend cash on healthcare'
April 5, 2009
- The secrets of getting older
- Takeaways for toddlers on the menu for many under-threes
- GPs feel 'sidelined' by pregnancy ruling
- Big barriers between stem-cell studies and treatments
- Children allowed freedom by parents are more active
- Drug advisory body yet to meet – a year after strategy switch
April 4, 2009
- Warning of malnutrition in UK as prices soar
- US halts deportation of war crimes suspect
- MSPs come together to raise money for breast cancer treatment
- Sport surgeon defies doctors' ageist attitude
- Calls for public inquiry into Vale of Leven C.diff deaths as police investigation drags on
- GPs to be bypassed in move to 'normalise' childbirth
April 3, 2009
- NHS warned scrapping of ERI parking fees 'will be disaster'
- 'Barcodes' that help us tell Clooney from rest of crowd
- Children's poor choices threaten free school meals project
April 2, 2009
- Talks to aid war heroes
- Teen makes final of change competition
- New facility for cancer care
- £10k charity bid by dad who beat cancer 8 times
- Donor drive to pull in World Scots for bone marrow matches
- Let them eat crisps, says food expert
- Lords asked to set fitness example
- Tooth decay cure may be added to sweets
- Inquiry into patient data left stacked in hospital's corridor
- Fears as prostitute support funds cut
- Ban on pair who duped public over children's cancer cash
April 1, 2009
- Take a punt on Capital's Sick Kids fundraiser
- Older women seek cancer jab
- 'Urgent action' needed on nursing setup
- Severely disabled man who defied medics dies aged 31
- Minister thanks NHS staff for tackling Scotland's hospital waiting lists
- Ambulance crews hit response time target
- University acts to fight obesity epidemic
- Safe sex? Not among the over-45s, say researchers
- New 'deafness cure' hope from stem cell research
- Doctors tell of huge human cost of chronic alcohol abuse in Scotland
