A group of clinicians and patients has called on the government at Holyrood to adopt a “Scotland-wide focus” on chronic kidney disease (CKD), saying that as many as 600,000 Scots
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The leader of Inverclyde Council has been charged in relation to alleged domestic assault and breach of the peace. Stephen McCabe has been released on an undertaking to appear in
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Former Scotland captain Stuart Hogg has admitted abusing his estranged wife over the course of five years. Hogg, 32, had been due to stand trial at Selkirk Sheriff Court on
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Extra cash coming to Scotland as a result of Rachel Reeves’s Budget will not be used to scrap the two-child limit on some benefits or end means-testing for winter fuel
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A landmark ruling on corroboration that could see more rape cases go to trial will have “far-reaching consequences,” a law body has warned. On October 30, an historic nine-judge panel
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Health experts have teamed up to produce a strategy aimed at tackling the key risk factors causing death and ill-health in Scotland, accusing the Scottish Government of having lost its
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The widow of a cancer patient who died from Covid-19 at a scandal-hit superhospital said he was a “dead man walking” due to infection risks, an inquiry heard. Senior Scottish
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Waiting times in Scotland’s emergency departments have increased and remain the worst since April, the latest figures show. Public Health Scotland statistics released on Tuesday show 62.3% of people were
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Cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Scotland increased by just over 40% last year to the highest total since 2017, figures show. Public Health Scotland (PHS) data shows there were 283
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An outdoor activity company has been fined £10,000 for breaching health and safety legislation after a 12-year-old boy drowned in a river. Schoolboy, Kayden Walker (pictured), of Bridgeton, Glasgow, was
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