A DIET rich in foods containing antioxidants does not protect against the UK's leading cause of sight loss, experts believe.

SCOTLAND is facing a cancer timebomb because of the obesity epidemic, a study warned yesterday.

SCOTLAND, in common with the majority of countries across the Western world, is facing the challenges of an ageing population. People are living longer at the same time as medical and pension costs are rising.

THE Joint Parliamentary Committee on the draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill reported in August. The committee, made up of peers and members of parliament, was tasked with pre-legislative scrutiny of the government's proposed legislation,

BRIAN Sugden has retired from Crosshouse Hospital, in Kilmarnock, after 25 years as a consultant general surgeon. More than 220 of his friends held a party at Kilmarnock's Park Hotel recently to mark his retirement. Sugden is succeeded by Lon

IN THE final part of his series, ALAN SINCLAIR looks at solutions to tackling Scotland's drug and alcohol problems by giving parents support early and often

Nitric oxide, which helps keep blood vessels open, begins breaking down as soon as blood goes into storage, two research teams report in separate studies in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

ScriptSwitch has added prescribing advice for GPs and nurses on issuing dressings and appliances to its prescribing decision-support software.

Financial incentives to encourage GPs to use Choose and Book will end in just over six months and patients will provide the impetus to further uptake of the e-booking scheme, according to the scheme's medical director.

An education programme which successfully cut the level of obesity in children by teaching them about healthy eating and discouraging fizzy drinks was no longer effective three years after the intervention came to an end, according to a study published

A team of researchers from China and the University of Oregon have developed an approach for neuroscientists to study how meditation might provide improvements in a person's attention and response to stress.

A team led by researchers at the UCSF Positive Health Program has been named to receive $15 million over five years to expand understanding of the complex interactions between HIV and the immune systems of newly infected patients following HIV

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Contrary to an earlier report, smoking appears to have no effect on the progression of multiple sclerosis, according to a new study. Researchers surveyed 364 people at both the initial and secondary stages of MS, 263 of whom were smokers.

Engineers say they have developed a microvascular system that can nourish growing tissues, a step that may one day allow laboratories to grow synthetically engineered tissues for transplants. The researchers have engineered tiny channels within a water-based gel that mimic

A diet rich in antioxidant vitamins and minerals does not seem to prevent the degenerative eye disease known as age related macular degeneration. Age related macular degeneration is the leading cause of visual loss in older people. It is caused

Researchers have identified a compound that may lead to a treatment that could protect against the effects of Huntington's Disease. A small molecule called C2-8 appears to delay the loss of motor control and reduce neurological damage in a mouse