Cancer patients in Scotland will be among the first to trial a new treatment aimed at those with rare forms of the disease. The project, known as Determine, matches people
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Drugs law must be reformed, MPs have concluded as they recommended greater testing at festivals as well as the use of safe spaces across the UK for users to take
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Child victims of violence and abuse will be given support at Scotland’s first “Bairns Hoose” which could save them going to courts and police stations to give evidence. They will
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A much-loved pensioner suffered a “horrific” death from an operable brain tumour after doctors failed to properly monitor her scan results, her husband has said. An investigation by the Parliamentary
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A watchdog has reprimanded a health board after staff members shared patients’ personal data on WhatsApp hundreds of times. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to NHS
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A man is facing a life sentence after being convicted of the sexual assault and murder of his 16-year-old sister in a “depraved” attack. Connor Gibson, 20, was convicted of
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The former foster parent of a man accused of murdering and sexually assaulting his teenage sister said he would not leave the siblings in each other’s company because they were
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A senior manager at a children’s hospital where water was found to be infected said he would have preferred a more “pro-active” approach to informing families of crucial developments but
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One of Scotland’s leading paediatric doctors said she still does not know what happened at a multi-million pound super hospital to cause infections in a children’s ward. Professor Brenda Gibson,
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Drug-related deaths among Scots who were dependent on opioids more than trebled between 2011 and 2020, according to new research. In a large-scale study involving almost 50,000 people over a
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