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NHS Fife apologises for poor accident and emergency performance
NHS Fife has apologised for keeping patients waiting too long for emergency treatment. (...)
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Patients in chronic pain forced to travel 500 miles for treatment
Tayside and Fife patients being sent 500 miles for chronic pain treatment has been branded ''utterly unacceptable''. (...)
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Retiring Professor Elaine Rankin hails progress in lung cancer care
Tayside can boast one of the best centres for lung cancer treatment in the UK, a professor said this week. (...)
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'The best feeling ever' — tears of joy for mum and dad as Ayley and Chloe take first steps
Carnoustie twins Ayley and Chloe Hirsch have amazed their parents — by walking just days after a life-changing operation. (...)
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Health tourism on the rise as Scots look to beat queues and big bills
Dozens of people from Tayside and Fife are set to fly abroad for cut-price dental work in the coming years, it has been claimed. (...)
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Magic of the Fairy Box for sick kids
When a family is affected by cancer, it is a life-altering experience and no case is ever the same. For Dundee woman Rosie Butler it led to the foundation of Fairy Box — a charity that has touched the lives of children and their families across Scotland (...)
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Dundee University and GlaxoSmithKline team up for £1m Huntington's disease project
Dundee University is to join forces with one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies to research a devastating brain disorder. (...)
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Two contractors suffer burns in accident at Raytheon factory in Glenrothes
Two men are recovering in hospital after being injured in an explosion at a Fife engineering factory on Monday. (...)
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Ombudsman rules NHS Tayside failed to adhere to Adults with Incapacity Act
NHS Tayside has been told to review the way it looks after patients who cannot consent to treatment. (...)
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Professor defends electroconvulsive therapy against Hollywood's portrayal
A top Tayside psychiatrist says a treatment stigmatised by Hollywood saves lives. (...)
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Ombudsman upholds widow's cancer treatment complaints
NHS Tayside has been told to tighten its procedures after a complaint from the widow of a cancer victim. (...)
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Woman injured in machinery accident at Townhead Farm
A woman was rushed to hospital following an industrial accident at a Perthshire farm on Tuesday. (...)
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'Nothing more than scaremongering' — salon owner says there's nothing fishy about pedicure craze
A Perth salon owner insists there is no need to fear the fish feet feeding phenomenon. (...)
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MSP presses need for Scottish adoption of skin cancer drug Ipilimumab
The plight of a Dundee mother-of-two suffering from an inoperable form of skin cancer was raised at the Scottish Parliament this week. (...)
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'A horrendous misuse of precious resources' — answers demanded on drug addict's 1000 out-of-hours treatments
Claims that emergency out-of-hours doctors have treated a Perthshire drug addict 1000 times must be investigated at government level, according to local MSPs. (...)
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Coupar Angus girl Wiktoria Mucha heads to US for life-changing operation
A young Perthshire girl who won the hearts of local people is heading to America today for a life-changing operation. (...)
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Cancer patient comes to the defence of 'first class' Ninewells Hospital
An 87-year-old Angus cancer patient has praised the "first class service" at Ninewells Hospital. (...)
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Name it, I'll bring it — cancer patient finds novel response to hospital ID demand
A Carnoustie cancer patient decided to leave no room for doubt after being denied treatment at Ninewells Hospital because he couldn't prove his identity. (...)
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Tarek Ramzi loses brave battle against cancer
A Fife man who fought to receive potentially lifesaving cancer treatment has lost his battle against his illness. (...)
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Improvements to Ninewells Hospital phototherapy treatment centre service
Patients with skin conditions can now go to the improved phototherapy treatment centre in Ninewells Hospital. (...)
