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Fried grasshoppers are a tasty treat in Thailand

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A poster image from the British Lung Foundation's campaign on smoking in cars

Should we ban smoking in cars?


MSP launches kids’ health campaign as supermarkets ordered to cover cigarette packets


James at Dallas Primary with his winner's certificate

Schools Journalist of the Year competition 2013


Winner is announced


An MSP is hoping to make assisted suicide legal in Scotland

GP who helped people die to be quizzed by police


Doctor who admitted giving ‘suicide pills’ to very ill patients may be charged over their deaths


Scientists need more support to fight superbugs, says report

Superbugs are ‘as big a threat as terrorism’


Chief medical officer urges action to treat timebomb of drug-resistant infections


Health Archive

Food banks have reported a big rise in people needing emergency supplies. Pic: Martin Shields/Newsquest Media
Posted Tuesday, 04 September 2012 in Health

More Scots forced to use food banks

'Often mum and dad will go without food so the children can be fed'

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Strawberry and summer fruit flavour yoghurts are clear favourites so far! Pic: Edinburgh Zoo
Posted Wednesday, 22 August 2012 in Health

Chimps go bananas for tasty treat

Zookeepers feed probiotic yoghurt to chimpanzees in health study

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Tony Nicklinson is severely paralysed and can communicate only by blinking and making very slight head movements
Posted Friday, 17 August 2012 in Health

Locked-in man loses court battle

Stroke victim ‘heartbroken and devastated’ at losing right to die case

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Posted Tuesday, 26 June 2012 in Health

Your favourite news stories

The top ten most-read Daily What News stories of this school year

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Children from Royal Mile Primary School in Edinburgh take part in the campaign. Pic: Gordon Terris/Newsquest Media
Posted Thursday, 21 June 2012 in Health

Kids march for safer roads

Traffic campaign may have broken world record

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Posted Tuesday, 19 June 2012 in Health

Martha’s African kitchen

Schoolgirl’s blog raises enough money to feed Malawian school for a year

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Some research says that 10 and 11-year-olds spend an average of 6.1 hours a day in front of a screen
Posted Wednesday, 23 May 2012 in Health

Addicted to technology

Warning for children who spend over six hours a day on screens

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Price hike: the cost of many alcoholic drinks will rise under the new law
Posted Tuesday, 15 May 2012 in Health

War on cheap alcohol

Minimum price set on alcoholic drinks

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Milking it: pupils and teachers to learn from real life experiences of farms and farm animals
Posted Tuesday, 08 May 2012 in Health

Fun on the farm

Farm trips and markets to teach kids about food

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Emma’s ponytail was nearly half a metre long! She donated it to help make wigs. Pic: Mark Mainz, Newsquest Media
Posted Friday, 04 May 2012 in Health

Girl donates hair

Nine-year-old cuts off hair to help young cancer victims

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