Edel Harris will be the next Chief Executive Officer of Royal Mencap Society, the charity confirmed today. She will leave her current role as CEO of Cornerstone, which provides a
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Scottish Autism, the largest provider of autism-specific services in Scotland, has announced it is to work alongside Gretton School in Cambridge to pilot a new Autism Practice Improvement Programme (APIP).
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Former footballers are approximately three-and-a-half times more likely to die from neurodegenerative disease than the general population, according to a new study. The report, released on Monday and commissioned by
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A minister who founded a mental health support service in the wake of Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison taking his own life has been chosen as the next moderator of
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New imaging technology has been developed to help picture how tumours form. Early diagnosis and treatment of patients with cancer could be helped by the tool which researchers at the
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A former pupil at a Catholic boarding school has told how he was raped by a monk who he suspects to be his father. The witness, who cannot be named
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Experts have called for systematic use of an “exercise prescription” to help cancer patients cope with treatment side-effects. A global panel reviewed evidence and then gave guidance about the benefits
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New powers could be given to the police and courts in Scotland to remove those suspected of domestic abuse from the homes of anyone at risk, the country’s First Minister
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A man has been jailed for eight years after admitting killing his 23-day-old daughter by shaking her. Thomas Haining, who was 19 at the time of the crime, had been
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The SNP has unanimously backed a call for control over drugs laws to be devolved to Scotland, to allow for the “decriminalisation of possession and consumption of controlled drugs”. Activists
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