Tag: medicine

Marketers Brought in to Cure Highland Doctor Crisis

Health

Guest - August 26, 2014

MARKETING consultants from the Channel Islands have been hired in a bid to solve the GP recruitment crisis in the Highlands. The team will be...

Historic plea to study medicine discovered at Scots university

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - March 8, 2012

A LETTER written by a suffragette that kick-started higher education for women in the UK has been discovered by historians. The 140-year-old document, which pleads...

Hospitals facing shortage of TB drug

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - August 21, 2011

SCOTS hospitals are facing a critical shortage of drugs vital for fighting tuberculosis. Public health minister Michael Matheson has admitted that hospitals across the country...

Misdiagnosed Parkinson’s disease costing taxpayer £2.5 million

Deadline News Journalist - November 15, 2009

By Rory Reynolds THOUSANDS of patients with Parkinson’s disease are being misdiagnosed, costing the taxpayer £2.5million every year in bungled medication, according to a new...