LONDON, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Chiltern International Limited (Chiltern), a global contract research organization, announced its latest collaboration with Tayside Academic Health Sciences Centre (TAHSC), a joint venture between UK's NHS Tayside and the University of Dundee.

CANCER patients will benefit from a GBP1.6million scanner at a new clinical research centre, it was announced today. Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon was expected to outline the cash pledge for the equipment at the offi cial opening of the GBP13million centre at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.

A Revamped Dundee eye clinic will benefit both staff and patients, it was claimed yesterday. The ophthalmology outpatient department at Ninewells Hospital has reopened following an investment of pounds400,000.

Colin Norris appeared a dedicated and caring nurse to friends and colleagues. But Norris harboured a more sinister side - a growing dislike of the elderly. A clear motive for his killing spree remains unclear, although a general dislike of the elderly was a possible factor, prosecutors suggested.

By Marisa Duffy FEW moments in life can be as pivotal and as devastating as the one in which you are told that you are suffering from cancer. Those who have been through the experience describe disbelief, numbness, rage and the feeling that the earth has been ripped from below their feet.