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As more women are treated for drink problems, one mother tells how her evening glass of wine turned into full-blown alcoholism.

Union leader Mark Serwotka, who needs a heart transplant after contracting a virus, talks about facing up to his own mortality.

There is one GP surgery in Huddersfield that specialises in treating some of the town's most complex patients

A new online calculator can show couples undergoing IVF what their chances of having a baby are.

Frail old people in England are being left to fend for themselves because government-funded care is being scaled back, a review suggests.

The world's largest dementia research project suggests ability to navigate declines as we age.

A man with HIV who says he had ritual sex with 104 women and girls faces up to five years in jail, if convicted. But some ask why the children's parents are not in the dock too.

The world's largest dementia research experiment, which takes the form of a video game, has indicated the ability to navigate declines throughout life.

Union boss Mark Serwotka on urgent transplant list after a virus he caught while walking his dog led to heart failure

An Australian woman gives birth to twins conceived 10 days apart after having hormone treatment.

Black women in England are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than white women.

Wales needs a "relentless drive" towards earlier cancer diagnosis as the government publishes its revised cancer plan.

None of Northern Ireland's health trusts is meeting their waiting time target for people with mental health problems like anxiety and depression.

At least one in every four women invited for cervical cancer screening in England last year failed to attend, latest figures show.

A surgeon who was jailed over patient's death at private hospital in north-west London wins an appeal against his conviction.

Patients with prostate cancer speak to the BBC about living with the disease.

Cash to boost child mental health care is not making it to front-line services, says a report.

Molecules found on mobile phones can reveal a lot about the owner's lifestyle, scientists say.

While fitness wearables grab the headlines, it's the clinically proven health monitoring gadgets that could save thousands of lives - and lots of money.

A nurse faces misconduct charges over claims she hid Ebola survivor Pauline Cafferkey's high temperature.

Being unable to store excess fat safely in the body increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart attacks and strokes, Cambridge University research suggests.

An email that was accidentally sent to 840,000 members of the NHS's staff in England causes havoc.

NHS chiefs have tried to keep local plans to cut hospital services in England secret, a study finds.

Dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, is now the leading cause of death in England and Wales.

An ambulance service worker who refused to call the emergency services gives birth in a car on the way to hospital.

Pleas for pregnant women to protect themselves against flu this winter are backed by health bodies.

Health services are attempting to reach deprived communities by offering them mobile cancer screening.

Amber McGrath is 18 and for most of her life she's lived with type 1 diabetes - this is how many hours she spends on it a day.

What lies behind the link between cancer and poverty and how do you break it?

At least half of the alcohol sold in Scotland does not meet impending minimum pricing legislation, a survey suggests.

Sore throat sufferers will be asked to visit a pharmacist, not a GP, to see if they need antibiotics, NHS England says.

Very stressful events affect the brains of girls and boys in different ways, a study suggests.

New research warns that infants under four weeks shouldn't travel in car seats for more than 30 minutes.

A contract to provide community health and care in Bath and North East Somerset over the next seven years is approved for Virgin Care.

Junior doctors call off the threat of industrial action over their new contract.

George, 22, who was recently diagnosed with HIV, meets 54-year-old Edwin, who was diagnosed 30 years ago, to discuss how different an HIV diagnosis was in the 1980s.

More than 150 British people, including children, affected by overseas terrorist attacks are using mental health services in the UK.

Speaking for the first time, a British survivor of the Bataclan terror attack explains to Newsbeat what the past year has been like for her.

A person's chances of falling ill from a new strain of flu are at least partly determined by the first strain they ever encountered, a study suggests.

Ivory Coast bans the production, importation and sale of alcohol in sachets to reduce alcoholism.

The NHS in England has the power to fund the HIV-preventative drug, Prep, the Court of Appeal has decided.

People who were in the scouts or guides in childhood have better mental health in later life, a study suggests.

Why do we really like one type of food and can’t stand the taste of something else? A summit of top chefs and scientists put food under the microscope.

An implant that beams instructions out of the brain is used to restore movement in paralysed primates.

The NHS in England is considering whether to ban or impose a tax on sugary drinks sold in hospitals.

An inspection of the Ulster Hospital flags up issues with staffing levels, patient care records and training.

Thousands of hospital bed days could be saved every year if occupational therapists were used more to help patients, a report says.

Scientists say they may have found a way to protect babies in the womb from the harmful effects of Zika.