A breakthrough material developed by scientists in Glasgow will make it easier to transport and store medicines including cancer treatments without the need for fridges or freezers. Researchers from the universities of Manchester, Glasgow and Warwick, have created a hydrogel – a material mostly made of water – that stabilises proteins at temperatures as high as 50°C.
An investigation by Public Health Scotland set out to explore the reason behind a "trend of declining baby and pre-school immunisation rates over the past decade", which comes against a backdrop of recent spikes in whooping cough and measles.
Older adults encouraged to look out for appointment letters landing as new vaccination offered to protect against Respiratory Syncytial Virus.
For the first time, older adults in Scotland and pregnant women will be offered a vaccine for Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Nearly all of us with have had the infection in our lifetimes - probably several times - but for some people it can cause severe illness.
Two leading cancer charities are working to establish a research centre in Scotland to help find a cure for the most aggressive form of brain cancer. Brain Tumour Research and Beatson Cancer Charity plan to open the Scottish Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence, in a unique collaboration based at laboratories at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Campaigners for children with long Covid say they are "profoundly disappointed" after being refused official status to participate when the UK Covid inquiry focuses on the consequences of the pandemic on children and young people. Long Covid Kids and Long Covid Kids Scotland had applied for core participant status for Module 8 of the inquiry, which promises to "examine the impact of the pandemic on children and young people in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland".
Scotland is already trailing behind England when it comes to elective NHS activity and clearing the backlog of very long waits for treatment - but the gap might be about to get even wider. England's new health secretary, Wes Streeting, has set his sights on clearing waiting lists completely within the next five years through a combination of evening and weekend clinics plus greater use of the private sector.
Researchers using cutting-edge machine learning to analyse vast amounts of medical data have been able to predict a person's risk of disease up to ten years before diagnosis. Scientists from Edinburgh University, working with industry partners, used artificial intelligence (AI) to scour blood samples collected from almost 50,000 individuals for protein signatures associated with a range of conditions, including heart disease, Alzheimer's, and Type 2 diabetes.
By the time repairs finally got underway in the council house Paul Wilson shared with his partner and two children, the damp was so severe that the washing machine was at risk of caving through the kitchen floor.
Tracey Whiteside “burst into tears” when she finally picked up the keys for her new council home in Paisley earlier this month. The 48-year-old, who currently shares a first-floor tenement flat in Linwood with her husband and 14-year-old daughter, has been on the waiting list since November 2019 after health conditions which cause severe pain in her legs left her relying on a wheelchair which did not fit through the flat’s bathroom doorway.
