The NHS cannot tackle the health gap between rich and poor by itself and can only provide a "sticking plaster" for such inequali...

A Scottish government report covering a 15-year-period from 1997 to 2012 revealed that hospital admissions for heart attacks were three tim...

The international tobacco industry makes about £30 billion in profits each year – a profit of approximately £6,000 per death from smoking....

Doctors in Scotland are suffering “stress and burnout” as growing NHS workloads take their toll, medical leaders today warned.  BMA Scotlan...

Poverty and not Scotland's lack of sun is mainly to blame for a catalogue of illnesses associated with low levels of vitamin D, a new s...

In the most deprived communities, men and women can expect to spend 22.7 years and 26.1 years respectively in "not good" health....

The gap between rich and poor is leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths in Scotland, health experts say. NHS Health Scotland examined ...

Few visitors to the Socialist Courier   blog will need to be told of the great frequency and seriousness of mental and emotional disturb...

In America Obamacare, reforms to the health system of that coutry has been called “creeping socialism” by the free-marketeers and the A...

Why are Scots sicker than the rest of the UK? Dr Phil Hanlon and researchers at the Centre for Population Health have compared life, inc...

Dr Brian Keighley, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Scotland, hit at the NHS Trusts.  "We now see health boards ...

A woman awaiting a transplant for a rare condition, atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome (aHUS), an inherited condition that has destroyed ...

Allan Cowie, general manager for Macmillan Cancer Support in Scotland, has revealed that after fear of pain, money worry is patients’ great...

When HIV/Aids took hold around the world and antiretroviral (ARV) drugs became available from 1987, the  drug treatments required then cost...

The NHS is failing to provide needs-based care in areas of blanket deprivation, GPs working in Scotland's poorest areas will tell MSPs...

The mental health of Scottish workers is being put at risk thanks to the "relentless pressure" of management systems meant to inc...

The number of people in Scotland prescribed antidepressants has reached record levels, with more than one in seven people taking the drugs....

A boy born in the most deprived 10 per cent of Scotland would have a life expectancy of just 68. That is eight years younger than the natio...

Rickets is making a comeback . Cases of rickets have risen fourfold since the mid-1990s  Half of Britain's white population, up to 90% ...

New figures revealed men in the wealthiest areas live 11 years longer than those in the most deprived parts of the country. For women, the...