By Kate Foster SCOTLAND'S maternity hospitals are turning away hundreds of pregnant women in need of emergency treatment because of serious staff shortages, a damning new report by Government auditors has found.

By Kate Foster SCOTLAND'S maternity hospitals are turning away hundreds of pregnant women in need of emergency treatment because of serious staff shortages, a damning new report by Government auditors has found.

By Frank Urquhart A SCOTTISH consultant called for a fresh debate on "end-of-life decisions" facing the medical profession yesterday as he left a disciplinary hearing without a stain on his career after being cleared of the mercy killing of two terminally ill babies.

A Scottish physician who injected two terminally ill premature babies under his care with huge doses of a muscle relaxant was cleared in their deaths Tuesday. A General Medical Council disciplinary panel in Manchester ruled Dr.

A state-of-the art medical teaching and learning centre in Aberdeen will put the city at the forefront of training medical students and health professionals, it has been claimed.