Tag: nhs

Uptake of morning-after pill on the rise

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - February 13, 2011

THE number of women and teenagers receiving over-the-counter birth control has risen five-fold in a decade. Latest NHS figures show that in 2001 just over...

Scottish NHS under threat from Cameron

Scottish News

Clare Carswell - January 23, 2011

HEALTH reforms from David Camerons’ government pose threat to the NHS north of the border according to expert. The Scottish health service is likely to...

Proof they’ve pulled: Christmas parties blamed for outbreak of ‘kissing disease’

Scottish News

Christine Lavelle - January 16, 2011

AN outbreak of mumps amongst youngsters could be down to increased socialising over the festive period. Hundreds of people in their late teens and early...

Slimmers urged to kick the smoking habit too

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - January 2, 2011

SCOTS slimmers are being urged to make two resolutions this year and give up smoking too under a new NHS programme. As part of a...

Amount of Scottish drug addicts on methadone is a ‘time bomb waiting to go off’

Scottish News

Christine Lavelle - December 5, 2010

DRUG addicts in Scotland are more likely than their English counterparts to receive the heroin substitute methadone, with doctors prescribing double the amount north...