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Diabetes levels are soaring in Scotland with the highest rise of recorded cases in the UK in the past year.

The chairwoman of the Scotland patients Association on Nicola Sturgeon's announcement that Clostridium difficile rates must be cut in hospitals by 30 per cent by 2011,

A FOOD substance normally associated with good health may play an active role in Alzheimer's disease, research has shown.

(Medical College of Wisconsin) Low birth weight is the most significant factor for the development of infantile hemangiomas, a common birthmark, according to a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Research Institute.

The County of Lambton Community health Services Department wants to encourage residents to make health a top priority by protecting yourself and those around you against the influenza (flu) virus this season. By getting a flu shot each year, you can help prevent the infection or reduce the severity of illness and reduce the spread of the virus in the community. read more

Findings from the 2008 Nutritious Food Basket (NFB) report, released by the County of Lambton Community health Services Department, indicate that low-income residents in Lambton have trouble paying for food after housing and other fixed costs are paid. The 2008 NFB report found that it cost a Lambton County family of four (two parents, two children), $134.78 per week or $539.12 per month to purchase groceries for a nutritionally adequate diet. Since 2000, food prices have increased 25.6%. read more

You'll never convince Gruen Von Behrens chewing tobacco is "cool." At age 13, Von Behrens tried his first wad of chew tobacco; by age 17 his face was disfigured by oral cancer. Now the 28-year-old travels the country on behalf of the National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP) telling young people just how "uncool" chew tobacco really is. "If I had known then what I know now, I never would have put a dip in my mouth. Chew tobacco seemed harmless, but it has ruined my life," says Gruen. read more

Nearly 450 training spaces for front-line health-care professionals are being offered in rural communities this year, a greater volume of rural health training than ever before and more than double the training spaces offered a decade ago, Health Minister Theresa Oswald and Advanced Education and Literacy Minister Diane McGifford said today. read more

Are humans intrinsically good or are we forever motivated by self-interest? Does ethical behaviour stem from biological evolution or is it something we have learned to calculate? On Nov. 6, McGill University will host the fourth annual Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium. This year's topic: Apes or Angels: What is the Origin of Ethics? Four of the world's leading economists and biologists will debate what economic theory and evolution have to say about human development and ethics. read more

Current labeling makes it difficult to determine whether a product contains the hormonally active chemical bisphenol A (BPA) as well as an entire group of compounds known as phthalates, about which scientists have also raised questions. The following reports may help: