Health

Comment: Drug deaths are not inevitable – but stopping them will take bold action

Evidence-based policy can change real-world outcomes and we must learn from the best solutions in the international community

Scottish Government schedules drugs conference for day before UK summit amid ‘squabbles’ over drugs policy

The Scottish Government said the conference would centre on people with lived experience of drug use and would inform the Scottish input to the UK Drugs Summit

Comment: creating a sustainable food and drink industry - Mairi Gougeon

Nick Nairn: 'We need an empathetic government to tackle poor Scottish diet'

Scottish Government announces NHS Lothian interim chair

We’re not done talking about mental health

Staffing costs £139,000 a month at unopened Edinburgh Sick Kids Hospital

Alcohol sales fall in first year of minimum unit pricing

Scottish Government 'very surprised' by announcement of Glasgow drugs summit

Scottish Government confirms five people being tested for coronavirus

Family calls for fatal accident inquiry into hospital water infection death

Hospital violence reduction programme expanded

Politicians and their plates: Christian Allard's Christmas bourguignon

In context: doctor's pensions

Associate feature: It's time to take staff wellbeing seriously

Comment: Speaking up about mental health issues is not enough

Associate feature: Poverty’s high price on health

Life expectancy falls across many parts of Scotland

More than a fifth of P1s in Scotland at risk of being overweight or obese

In context: Female genital mutilation

A sickening problem: rising absence rates in the public sector

Jeane Freeman announces infection control assessment of Glasgow hospital

Committee calls for greater engagement on FGM bill

Forty-five homeless people died in Glasgow last year, according to official figures

Rise in senior doctor vacancies

Fewer children treated within mental health waiting time target