News 2016

Dr Mhairi Aitken is one of four winners of FameLab's Edinburgh heat, moving to the Scottish finals of the international science communication competition.

Food cooked at high heat may carry toxic chemicals that raise risk of heart disease, researchers have warned.

Survivors of sexual violence in war zones suffer long-lasting consequences, such as physical injury, mental trauma and social stigma, research suggests.

Integrating the ideas, theories, principles, and methods of epidemiology. By Prof Raj S. Bhopal. Oxford University Press.

Most people aged 70 and over in Scotland are missing out on palliative care as healthcare professionals can find it difficult to know when to introduce this approach in older people, according to a new report from the University of Edinburgh and terminal illness charity Marie Curie.

Mobile phone technology could help to beat bad practices in healthcare delivery, research suggests.

The cost of treating a smoking-related chronic lung disease will exceed more than £2.3 billion per year in England – and £200 million in Scotland – by 2030, research suggests.

Asthma care costs UK at least £1.1bn each year, study shows.

Researchers have identified a gene that appears to curb coffee consumption.

People of ethnic minority background in Scotland can expect to live several years longer than White Scots, a study has shown.