Swimming in ice-cold water helped author Brigid Lowe cope with PTSD – so she set herself challenge to take a dip in a thousand lochs

Slimming groups are still proving a hit, especially as they don’t frown on growing fad of weight-loss medication and injections

Patient safety tsar backs call for review of ex-soldier’s death

Families of patients with genetic disorders call for greater support

Triage cars will be a boost – but good practice is needed on mental health, says patient chief

Lost Shore: How childhood trip to Hawaii inspired quarry in Ratho that’s become surfers’ paradise

My Scotland: Coastal gems and early morning cycles with sommelier Stuart Skea

Widow of war-traumatised former soldier who chose to end his life at Swiss clinic tells how his desperate pleas for help were ignored

Britain has to build its way out of global crisis, says Scotland’s newest trade union leader

Jack Whitehall on cutting his teeth in Edinburgh, how marriage and parenthood have changed him – and why he accepts it’s payback time for his ‘nepo parents’

Life savings: Medical experts fear Scotland could be ‘sleepwalking’ into a private healthcare system

It’s Time: Money is used as a weapon to inflict pain, and denial of access to funds leaves abuse victims stuck in cycle of poverty

Patients whose lives have been transformed put nurse Fiona up for major award

Health Secretary urges Eljamel’s insurers to help private patients

Rhea Wolfson: Reviving industries isn’t a nostalgia trip – it’s the only way to survive new reality

Travel: Searching for great food and skiing at Mont Blanc

Travel: Thrills and spills for youngsters and the young at heart in Orlando

Hit movies and superheroes are turning Scotland’s cities into star attractions

Peak practice: Mountain rescue nurse cares for climbers, kids and even cows

My Scotland: Visiting salon owner Graeme Fawns’s favourite spots