Health

A patient who has lived with type 1 diabetes for more than 30 years has told how an innovative DIY artificial pancreas system has changed his life.

Usually the trend for mindfulness and peace of mind involves listening to a pod cast or getting up to speed with what the latest guru is advocating.

Lactose intolerance is a common digestive problem that can cause bloating, nausea and abdominal pain after consuming food and drinks containing lactose.

CHEST heaving and legs jellied, I stagger around the sports hall feeling suitably smug, that wasn’t so tough.

A SAVVY student has hit the high notes with a device that helps the hearing impaired to feel music.

FIVE years ago, he brought the fighting spirit of the East to the West to reach the pinnacle of the amateur game.

At home pregnancy tests are usually very reliable, but there are factors that can mess with the results

Shocking violence on the streets of Glasgow and the National Crime Agency threatening the apocalypse from serious and organised crime. There’s no doubt the threat exists and has both increased and developed over recent years.

The Jordans & Ryvita Company is recalling Dorset Cereals Simply Oat Granola because it could be a health risk to anybody with a nut allergy.

What qualities are important in your healthcare professional – your doctor, nurse, physiotherapist, midwife or pharmacist? Does it help if you actually like them and get on with them or is the provision of healthcare merely transactional?

Volunteer fundraiser and community superhero Keith Armour has raised more than a ­quarter of a million pounds for Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) by putting on five major sci-fi and pop-culture events in Edinburgh and Falkirk – Capital Sci-Fi Con and The Falkirk Invasion.

A Lothian politician has called for more men to consider nursing as a career path in light of what he says is a nursing workforce 'crisis.'

A common ingredient which is found in chewing gum, mayonnaise and toothpaste could be a factor in triggering bowel cancer, experts have warned.

A STOCKBRIDGE bookshop, already voted the best independent bookseller in Scotland, has now been officially named the best in Britain.

The big name baby food provider has issued a recall after it has been found to be contaminated