The SCPN Newsletter: Latest Articles
The recent decisive ruling in the Supreme Court in favour of the Scottish Government and against Imperial Tobacco and the failure of its vending machine subsidiary Sinclair Collis to pursue its ...
Last year, the UK Government announced a review of the evidence for breast screening as a result of on-going criticism from some quarters that the screening programme over states the benefits and ...
Every year in the UK 2,000 teenagers and young adults (TYAs) aged 15-24 are diagnosed with cancer1, of which around 180 (10%) live in Scotland2. This means that, on average, every two days ...
Ovarian cancer claims almost 400 lives a year in Scotland (ISD data), presenting with disease beyond the ovary in over 60% of women. There has therefore been a prolonged quest for ...
The Scottish Government has launched a new breast awareness campaign as part of its Detect Cancer Early programme. The campaign highlights the importance of early diagnosis and shows examples of ...
The term “adult playground” may deter some adults from using one however it is this concept that could play a part in addressing Scotland’s ever expanding obesity epidemic. It is ...
As we await sight of a draft of Scotland’s new national tobacco control strategy, an important document that will set the direction for much of our work in the coming years, I wanted to reflect ...
What is Quit4u? Quit4u is an innovative smoking cessation service which was commissioned by the Scottish Government and developed by NHS Tayside. The intervention was targeted at smokers in ...
What to advise cancer patients At a workshop in November 2011 held by the US Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) National Cancer Policy Forum, experts met to discuss the role of obesity in ...
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing a ban on the sale of large soft drinks1. Under the proposals, drinks larger than 16 ounces would be made unavailable across various public ...