Archive for May, 2009
May 31, 2009
- Appeal for new blood donors
- 5,000-name petition on disabilities
- One in 17 Scots forced to have a tooth removed in the last year
- Bed-tracking system may be just what the doctor ordered in superbug fight
- Jab for everyone in Lothian if swine flu reaches crisis point
- Heart fund will keep Tracey's name alive
- Cancer patient's appeal for donors may help 360 people
- Two Scottish children are struck down by swine flu
- Rush to introduce vaccination throws up worrying questions
- Fears over reactions to cervical cancer jab
May 30, 2009
- Cancer survivor's bet nets £10,000 prize
- Daily doses of vitamin D could cut cancer rates worldwide, experts claim
- Anger at NHS targets set for drug addicts
- Scotland among worst for stillbirths
- Swine fever confirmed in visitor to Scotland
- Peers to challenge assisted suicide law
May 29, 2009
- Safe sex campaign criticised
- Nurses' union chief witnesses drink damage
- Deaf fiancée says no to ear implants
- Project passes on life skills to female crooks
- Isle castaway who won't be sending any smoke signals
- Hendry at wife's bedside as she fights for her life
- Critically ill man's wife and child also have swine flu
- Two more 'Edinburgh Group' students on swine flu watch
May 28, 2009
- Health board hits target
- Report should lead to better dementia care
- Parking spaces to go in ERI plan
- New hunt for city swine flu victims
- Anti-obesity drive has a French connection
- Bonus system for doctors is sexist and too expensive says Nationalist GP
- Top dentist 'charged £3,700 for implants that did not fit'
- 'Aspirin a day' advice may put at risk the health of some patients
- School shuts as third pupil hit by 'probable' swine flu
- Care homes rapped for giving hidden drugs to patients
May 27, 2009
- Music eases pain for babies
- Greek pair develop swine flu on return from visit to the Capital
- Apprentice reject hired to raise funds for the new Sick Kids
- Towns unite for £1.4m campaign to fight obesity
- Hospital staff too busy to wash hands says NHS chief
- Premature babies soothed by music
- National plan to tackle dementia
- Sat Nav surgery on 1,000 knees
- Junk food advert ban will have little effect, conclude researchers
- MSP disputes claim of cigarette 'glamour'
- Scots lead study into children's tooth decay
- Fears over patient care lead doctors to lie about their hours
- Scientists unlock the secrets of gene that fights cancer
- Suspend stocking treatment and save £7m, researchers say
- Fears for wife and three children of 'critical' swine flu patient
- Scots too scared of being stigmatised by medics to ask for obesity treatment
May 26, 2009
- One schoolgirl each week has an abortion in Lothian
- 'Bed blocking' figures hailed
- NHS dental patients up 20%
- Thousands of Scots commit to giving up smoking
- Scots NHS waiting times less than 12 weeks
- Surgeon enlists computer to treat knee injuries
- Aloha Hebrides? No thanks, as doctor from Hawaii turns down job
- Scotland's abortion figures buck falling UK trend to hit record high
- Watchdog: Back pain sufferers should get acupuncture on NHS
- Medical students to get check-up for bad behaviour
May 25, 2009
- Medics probe possible new swine flu case
- NHS hits waiting time targets for patient scans
- Four more cases of swine flu brings UK total to 137
- First Scots facility dedicated to eating disorders opens
- Genetic code behind the menopause revealed by scientists
- Employers' positive action on epilepsy helps consign discrimination to history
- Lyndsay Moss: Never mind 'hype', swine flu remains a very real danger to health of the world
- Nurse suspended over claims that elderly patients were abused
May 24, 2009
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- Medical records lost in 140 security breaches
- Nurse set to fight sacking
- Concerns as migrants quit
- Call for tests to cut strokes
- Labour of love care service is nominated for top award
- A night of drunken shame on scotland's emergency frontline
- Former smokers can fly high in Fife
- Former smokers can fly high in Fife
- Six get swine flu all-clear but 11 more cases south of Border
- Six get swine flu all-clear but 11 more cases south of Border
- One in three Scots is hit by the sniffles as hay fever rates soar
- One in three Scots is hit by the sniffles as hay fever rates soar
May 23, 2009
- NHS crucifix row
- Sextuplets first in UK for quarter of a century
- Dogs face deadly new disease
- Depression dubbed 'the new back pain' with 50,000 Scots claiming sick pay
- Rosepark Nursing Home fire: Blaze victims failed by a legal loophole
- GP surgeries audit raises vaccine fears
May 22, 2009
- Charity run on the menu
- Teen birth net sensation
- Stylish aid for cancer teens
- New role for pharmacist
- Fundraisers get play area for Sick Kids
- Gluten-free bread sales are on a roll
- Concern at level of spending on anti-depressants
- Sextuplets born in five minutes
- Concern at level of spending on anti-depressants
- Sextuplets in intensive care after five-minute delivery
- Mother creates new gluten-free bread for son
May 21, 2009
- Diabetics' heart risk cut by blood sugar control
- Frock swap to fashion funds for HIV projects
- Public help on stroke service
- Students visit famous spas
- Three Scots may have swine flu
- Legal firm set to help medics
- More patients on their way to St John's
- Cold virus is scientists' new weapon to destroy cancer
- Brain drain worry as top scientists quit Scotland
- £10m in two years on pills for depression
May 20, 2009
- Health bosses vow ME action
- Ticking off for holidaymakers
- Drive aims to cut Hep C cases
- Emergency call operators fail to recognise stroke victims
- Vitamin D 'may stop dementia'
- Ministers 'lacking in compassion' over victims of hepatitis C
- Sunbathers warned … don't trust protection guide on your lotion
- NHS owed £180k for treating foreigners
- Hospital bug C diff found 'in 30 cases since deadly outbreak'
- Swine flu school back in business after week's closure
May 19, 2009
- 90% of patients see a GP within 48 hours
- Most patients get to see GP within 2 days
- Sturgeon hails new cancer care facility
- Lothian praised over cancer wait times
- Cigarette machines ban may be unlawful
- Every over-55 'needs blood pressure drugs'
- Rugby chiefs play it safe and rewrite rules to safeguard boys from injury
- Too much cola 'weakens your bones'
- Holiday flights to Mexico are set to resume
- NHS finally hits target for cancer waiting times – three years late
May 18, 2009
- Concern over rise in long-term sick leave
- Whisky night drams up £340 for Sick Kids
- Pupils put best feet forward
- MSPs listen to calls for routine hearing screenings for over-55s
- New test sheds light on prostate cancer
- Private care clinic to pinpoint allergies 'within minutes'
- Graham McCorkindale: Better by design – how attention to detail is good for patients and hospital staff
- Ian McKee: Debates don't always go as expected in our nifty new democracy
- Prognosis for NHS looks grim if juniors leave
- Patients to get advice on benefits
- Mother, 22 is confirmed as Scotland's tenth case of swine flu
- Salt levels to be cut in hundreds of foods
May 17, 2009
- Work 'staves off Alzheimer's'
- Smoking kills six times more than accidents
- Local level call for children's nursing needs
- Nurses back campaign to legalise prostitution
- Birth weight link to high blood pressure
- Plea to Brown for stem-cell research millions
- Boy, 3, infected with swine flu
- 'Milestone' celebrated as ME document is sent to GPs
May 16, 2009
- Pensioner fights for pre-NHS damages
- Woman, 66, to become oldest mother in Britain following IVF in Ukraine
- Healthier children say 'aargh' to sweets
- Five new possible swine flu cases probed as travel advice relaxed
May 15, 2009
- NHS opens superbug hotline after deaths
- Triplet's 70-mile trip highlights problems of provision
- Better care to be delivered to at-risk babies
- Three new cases of swine flu confirmed in single day
May 14, 2009
- Carer awards scheme launched
- Smoking gene in pregnancy
- Organ donation at 10-year high
- Fair warning over risk of skin cancer
- MSPs: Children being failed by lack of PE
- Smoke ban stubs out Rab C star's creativity
- Martin gets on his bike to help ERI after horror accident
- Watchdog to investigate two deaths in superbug outbreak
- Sturgeon sets new target as number of organ donors hits ten-year high
- Swine flu scare sees Scottish teachers cancel conference
- Eight patients contract C Diff at hospital where two died
- Scotland secures enough swine flu vaccine for entire population
May 13, 2009
- Healthy living 'is too pricey'
- Lothian bucks infection trend
- Midwives to be main carers
- RCN warns of pressure on school nurses
- Smokers are the 'silent victims of an epidemic'
- 'One-stop' sex health centre has a discreet exit
- Cereal is better than an energy drink after exercise
- Nurses vote for licensed brothels to protect sex workers
- Waits of one year for mental health help in 'Cinderella' service
- Lothian hit by massive rise in booze-fuelled mental illness
- Hospital closes wards after superbug deaths
- £36m to tackle blight of alcohol on society
- Nursery school closed amid fears pupil, 3, has contracted swine flu
- Scottish Government under fire over cancer patient drug charges
- Funding boost for alcohol addiction treatment
May 12, 2009
- Fundraiser ensures little Ellie's special education for the year
- Surgeons perform 'scarless' spleen removal
- Pregnant women to get more say on care
- Topping up NHS treatment could put other patients at risk, say MPs
- 'Secret' exit created to boost attendance at sexual health clinic
- Malnutrition death rate in hospitals has doubled
- School closed amid swine flu fears for boy, 5
- Ten suspected swine flu cases investigated
- Swine flu continues to spread to more countries
- Scottish asbestos victims win legal battle
- Swine flu could infect 'one-third of world population'
May 11, 2009
- NHS services set for switch
- Vermin a pest to hospitals
- Food labels must improve
- Girls' eating disorders rise
- Eye disease preventable by a diet rich in the right oils
- Nursing timebomb as a quarter near retirement
- SNP fails to meet target on school nurses
- Transplant doctor's new lungs are up to the job
- Benefits of exercise undone by vitamins
- Hopes high of fall in asthma rate
- Our aim is to educate doctors so they can help improve patients' lives
- Fake acupuncture 'as effective as needle'
- Dr John Garner: Prescribing a cure for elderly patients'pill-popping culture
- Diet and exercise are the key, says Cancer Research Fund
- Frightening ITP is manageable with right help
- Breastfeeding hit by wealth divide
- Hefty Holly sheds two stones for hill walkies
- Cover up in the sun, warns man who beat skin cancer
- 60,000 'harmful NHS incidents' last year
- Ten new UK swine flu cases confirmed
- Scots claim to have solved the mystery of thalidomide
- Pioneering care pledge as £100m hospital welcomes first patients
May 10, 2009
- Body mass move 'could stop cancer'
- Doctors order new surgery
- Trio start their engines for global trek
- Crisis of ageing foster parents
- NHS Lothian handed £4m for new equipment
- I'm obsessive sufferer admits bra tycoon
- Sunbed use rockets as downturn hits holidays
- Expert's masterclass in euthanasia
- Nine a week treated for malnutrition in Lothians
- Nurses call for licensed brothels to protect health of prostitutes
- Fresh swine flu cases in UK found – but none are in Scotland
May 9, 2009
- Zuma the comeback kid sworn in as leader
- Cervical cancer jabs cast into doubt after experts question effectiveness
- Losing battle against the school run
- SNP pledge fails to halt rise in antidepressants
May 8, 2009
- Online contest for Sick Kids
- Investment could fight superbugs
- Nurses waiting to be trained
- Suspected swine flu case investigated
- Autism: One in 10 'get better'
- Link made to mental health improvement
- Third of nurses lacks superbug training
- ERI turns away mums-to-be because maternity unit is full
- Youth in hospital as two new cases of swine flu suspected
May 7, 2009
- Tynecastle hosts an evening in aid of unique toddler Ellie
- Events week aims to show breast is best
- Dogs for deaf being shut out of city shops
- Medical files found on disks bought on eBay
May 6, 2009
- Healthy new approach to hospital care for teens
- Six possible swine flu cases in the Lothians
- City hospitals in rude health as bed-blocking eliminated
- Child mental health gets extra £3.5m
- Stem cell treatment for blindness begun
- The more PE, the less exercise children do outside school
- UK swine flu infections rise to 32
May 5, 2009
- Primary pupils 'tie the knot'
- Hospital stall in good hands
- Asthma alert for smokers
- Drivers gear up to raise funds for city's teenage cancer unit
- Aid targeted for alcoholics
- Doctor 'failed to report underage sex case'
- Middle-aged women drink twice as much as they did 10 years ago
- 'Quarantine rooms' planned for swine flu pupils
- Scottish woman tested for swine flu after New York trip
- Sturgeon praises NHS staff's reaction to swine flu outbreak
May 4, 2009
- Do your bit to aid NHS
- ME expert holds event
- More men turning to plastic surgery
- Ambulances involved in hundreds of accidents
- Baby biscuits containing 'danger' fat to be removed from shelves
- Contraceptive jab for men a step closer as tests prove 99% successful
- Scotland's first anorexia unit to open
- Dean Marshall: Consultation is key to developing a Scottish GP service fit for all
- Keira uses her own fight to inspire others
- Children taken ill in new swine flu cluster
- Further probable case of swine flu in Scotland
- 'Majority' of air passengers traced in swine flu probe
- Swine flu outbreak 'looks less serious than feared'
May 3, 2009
- Maternity talks finshed
- Charity praises Brown for backing visits to Auschwitz
- NHS chiefs plan Lothian's first specialist eating disorders unit
- Swine flu fear couple tell of relief after their false alarm
- France steps up fight against virus
- Top girls' school shut down by virus
- Colombia latest to confirm case
- MSPs to launch investigation into elderly care standards
- Women smokers 'face higher risk of lung cancer than men'
- Women smokers 'face higher risk of lung cancer than men'
- Scotland confirms fourth case of swine flu
May 2, 2009
- Flu warning to Scots over Chinese spice
- Swine flu 'contained' in the UK - Johnson
- Euthanasia doctor to give talks
- Doctors to treat alcoholics with taste of The Good Life
- Swine flu: 'Brown needs to look more emotional'
- Patients warned over shortage of doctors due to EU rule to cut hours of work
- Swine flu: The Fear
