Tag: Health

Revolutionary stem cell treatment could help blind patients see

DOCTORS in Scotland have performed revolutionary stem cell surgery which could help blind patients see for the first time. The surgery is part of a...

John Lazy Baird: Scots inventors helped create the 21st Century couch potato, says health boss

SCOTTISH inventors helped to create the couch potato, one of the biggest public health problems of the 21st Century, a government fitness tsar has said. Andrew Murray,...

Hospital apologises over OAP care

AN elderly fall victim was sent home from hospital in the depth of winter wearing only a shirt, trousers, dressing gown and one slipper. David...

NHS to overturn ban on HIV positive medics

MEDICS carrying the HIV virus will be allowed to operate on Scots patients without  their knowledge. NHS bosses has agreed to reverse a ban on...

Over two million on organ donor register

THE number of people on the NHS Organ Donor Register in Scotland has reached a record high of over two million. New figures show that...

South Asian women “less likely” to have breast cancer screening

PAKISTANI and South Asian women living in Scotland are at risk of late diagnosis of breast cancer because they do not go for screening,...

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