Health

Registered drug deaths fell 13% to 1,017 in 2024 but suspected cases rose in 2025 while rehab beds trail targets and The Thistle marks one year.

FDA enforcement report tallies 236192 cases of Taylor Farms lettuce pulled in the cyclospora outbreak.

Parasites slip through sewage treatment in small numbers and irrigate produce, explaining the record U.S. cyclospora surge linked to Mexican iceberg lettuce.

Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce tied to 6358 illnesses and two deaths as national cyclosporiasis tops 10000 confirmed cases with long reporting lags still adding.

Half of Scottish adults live with long-term conditions and disease burden is set to climb 21% by 2043 while the integrated framework remains unpublished past.

Scotland wants every social worker and care assistant registered with the SSSC, but new fees and staffing gaps could undercut that goal.

Genomic surveillance shows Scotland’s meningococcal strains reset during COVID, nearly erasing the lineage behind the UK’s 2015 vaccine overhaul.

A former NHS Scotland strategy director wants an independent body to write health strategy, arguing four decades of political control produced only marginal change.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s new 3D exoscope helped 13-year-old Toby Peart recover quickly from brain tumour surgery, a first for Scotland.

Hormone-focused green prescriptions look new, but New Zealand began writing them in 1998 and Britain scaled them nationally, data now show.