Background Child dental caries is highly prevalent worldwide, with significant treatment costs, but its broader societal ...

Gonorrhoea cases remain alarmingly high in Scotland, a new report has found, with a spike among older men prompting the ...

John Swinney insists his government is focused on improving cancer care after new figures show record-low treatment rates.

Public Health Scotland 's report on these figures also revealed a worrying disparity between vaccination rates in deprived and affluent communities, despite the vaccine being freely available to ...

Data from Public Health Scotland (PHS) shows nearly a third of patients who had an urgent referral for suspected cancer did not begin their treatment within the 62-day target. Onl ...

Yellow heat health alerts from the UK's Health Security Agency are in force across central and southern parts of England ...

Data released by Public Health Scotland (PHS) reveals that almost a third of patients referred to the NHS in Scotland with an urgent suspicion of cancer are waiting longer than the 62-day target ...

In a quiet corner of Glasgow’s East End, a radical public health experiment is underway. For the first time in the United Kingdom, people who inject illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine can do so ...

A woman died after falling at a beauty spot on one of the hottest days in Scotland for two years - emergency services raced ...

Nearly 10,000 staff in Scotland’s “bloated” public sector are on six-figure salaries, the most detailed survey ever of their ...

A warning over an “extreme” risk of wildfires is in place for much of Scotland as the latest summer heatwave begins to hit ...

Government ministers are being told to set a maximum workplace temperature as Scotland braces for a record-breaking heatwave.