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- Sep 1, 2010
- Dundee University opens £600k unit to help fight against diabetes A new £600,000 research facility at Perth Royal Infirmary, funded by The University of Dundee's Diabetes Research Campaign, has been officially opened.
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- Sep 1, 2010
- Bed blocking traps hundreds of Scots in hospital Bed blocking returned to Scottish hospitals this summer, with official figures revealing that the number of delayed discharges among patients rose dramatically over three months.
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- Aug 31, 2010
- Scottish charity to help Scotland's deaf Deaf Connections is pioneering a new approach to helping deaf people communicate better, which it believes will revolutionise communication for more than 50,000 deaf and hard of hearing people from across the UK.
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- Aug 31, 2010
- Health report backs Scotland's 'sick man of Europe' tag A new report has concluded that Scots drink more, smoke more and have worse diets than people elsewhere in the UK.
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- Aug 31, 2010
- Best hospital waiting time figures recorded by NHS in Scotland Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has hailed the latest waiting time figures achieved by the NHS in Scotland as the "best ever".
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- Aug 31, 2010
- iPill scheme to save millions wasted on unused medicines in Scotland A new service aimed at cutting the millions of pounds a year that Scottish Health Boards lose on wasted medicines has been launched.
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- Aug 30, 2010
- Caithness mothers trained to help new mums with breastfeeding A group of Caithness mothers who breastfed their own children have just completed a training course to enable them to help other mums to breastfeed successfully.
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- Aug 30, 2010
- Positive parenting trial to help Glasgow's expectant mothers A programme that experts believe could help break Glasgow's poor health and poverty cycle is to be trialled with expectant parents in the city.
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- Aug 30, 2010
- New Aberdeen centre offers hope in beating cancer A new centre which will help transform tens of millions of pounds of groundbreaking research into new drugs to treat deadly conditions such as cancer is being created in the north east.
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- Aug 30, 2010
- Scots schoolchildren miss out on free fruit Children are being denied a free fruit scheme because of Treasury red tape according to the Scottish Government.
