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- Parasite link to asthma cure
- Mother tells how hospital removed healthy breast
- Drugs mix is hailed for high blood pressure sufferers
- Picture profits to help victims of Alzheimer's
- BMA warning
- Runners give hospital a cash lift
- Quick nurse, the reunion!
- Winston unveils 'life-saving' pig organ research
- 'Condoms for all' policy sparks outcry
- Chlamydia spreading as youths spurn tests
- Suicide prevention scheme receives £250,000 boost
- Blood pressure tells
- Sharp rise in skin cancer deaths leads to warnings
- Cannabis researchers find tool to fight obesity
- Simple word tests could help detect onset of Alzheimer's
- Lions tackle suicide with card campaign
- Lothian DIY store set to Focus on meningitis
- A mental workout can keep the brain sharp into old age
- Scots youth choose DVDs over sport
- Osteoporosis risk linked to eating too much liver
- Ministers to focus on wheelchair services after complaints
- Nurses call for rethink over pensions age
- Babies in womb exposed to gender-bending chemicals
- Hoy gearing up to aid meningitis research
- High levels of stress 'can reduce breast cancer risk by 40%'
- Bug toll rises
- Pesticide alert
- Pig-to-human organ swaps could soon be a reality
- Infected patients 'taking superbug into hospital'
- RSI an increasing pain in the neck
- The NHS will always put patients first
- GP claims asthma death family suffering 'abnormal grief'
- Help crisis for women with drink problems
- Edinburgh hosts gluten disease conference
- Raffle's just the ticket for kids hospital
- Study into effects of mums' diet on children
- Developed for grown-ups, but prescribed to children
- Doctors right to risk false accusations for good of our young
- Emergency prescription charges could be a necessary evil
- On the rounds
- Pillbox: Loperamide Hydrochloride
- Holiday drinking bad for your heart
- The 'cure' for cold? Friendly bacteria
- For every new baby, use a new mattress
- Vitamin C in high dose may help beat cancer
- I didn't have skills to save baby's life, midwife tells fatal accident inquiry
- Vegan diet 'helps women to lose weight'
- Speed up report on GPs' opt-out says Holyrood
- Nursing chief raises fears for patients
- Couch potatoes grow up to be fat
- Charities link to boost care for heart patients
- Putting off childbirth defies nature, claim doctors
- Patients warned of HIV risk from bogus dentist
- NHS sick-leave levels highest in five years
- Students at risk of mumps as cases rise
- Cigarette curb plea for U18s
- SNP claims huge increase in four-hour waits at A&E
- Look after yourself as a matter of policy
- Cancer-causing dye found
- Campaign on disease hailed great success
- Breakthrough for girl 'allergic to the world'
- It's kill or cure for world medicine industry
- Braving the pain to save a sibling's life
- On the rounds
- All analgesics have problems, so why take away one that's so effective?
- Clinic setting up first face transplant
- New epilepsy campaign has message for young people
- Medics group holds first city meeting in 147 years
- Expert talks on new hope to beat Alzheimer's
- Nurses set up breast cancer fashion event
- Autism specialist set to deliver free city lecture
- £4.5m deal safeguards dental courses
- Even a little puppy fat could sow seeds of heart disease
- Radical plan to break up NHS comes under attack
- System to spot heart disease 'fails to identify key factors'
- NHS board fined £7,500
- Abortion provider did not break law with late referrals
- Guidelines ensure correct drug and dose for children
- Foetus may hold secret of organ regrowth
- New drug could cut cost of brittle bones
- E.coli leaves girl, 3, on dialysis
- BUPA attacked by top plastic surgeons
- ME research talk
- NHS told to round up ill-looking Scots
- Heart patients miss out on life-saving scanner
- NHS chiefs told off over anaesthetic procedures
- Dolly creator warns lives being lost by cloning laws
- Urgent dental care centre is uprooted
- Hospital bug deadlier than thought
- On the rounds
- Acting out life's little dramas while waiting
- Pill box
- Scots too fat for operating tables
- Heart pill 'could help many more'
- Pupils taking steps to show the benefits of walking
- MRSA found on five babies in hospital
- New dentists to sink teeth into Lothian children's oral health
- Welsh E.coli outbreak wanes
- John's kidney is just what the doctor ordered for ailing Jim
- Dental plan to fill the oral care gap

