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A US hospital has offered to ship the 11-month-old an experimental treatment drug.
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The service at Belfast City Hospital aims to identify and support those at risk of heart problems.
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If you get gonorrhoea, you might not be able to get rid of it, world health experts warn.
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More than 14,000 women attending clinics in 2016 had become pregnant despite using contraception.
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Survey of mental health leaders suggests rising demand and staff shortages are major problems.
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Internet-based messaging apps are a key way for doctors to send patient information, the BBC has learned.
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Graduate women are struggling to find educated men who want to start a family, research suggests.
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Targeted treatment could be developed as human DNA and its effects on health are better understood.
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Damning verdict comes as inspectors warn a quarter of care services are failing on safety.
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NHS warns people to get checked out if they feel short of breath doing everyday tasks.
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The technology could be used to understand how cancer spreads and improve treatment.
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Scientists in Japan have developed a technique for finding cancerous cells throughout the body
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Breakthrough means drug discovery is no longer like "firing in the dark".
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Hannah Bardell on the domestic abuse faced by a constituent who refused for her daughter to undergo FGM.
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Boris Johnson says the terminally ill baby cannot be transferred to the children's hospital in Rome.
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Joanne and Mark Wishick are thought to be the first in the UK to each give kidneys to their children.
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Statistics suggest black people are four times more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
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Patients can be fined a maximum of £100 for obtaining free medication while not eligible to do so.
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Mali villages removed flowers from shrubs and saw a big drop in mosquito numbers.
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Doctors have to make special appeals for vital treatments such as hip operations and cataract surgery.
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Women and girls born in Somalia make up more than a third of those identified, but 112 were UK-born.
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Commitment to match the offer in England, which UK government agreed to in the face of rebellion.
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A family makes a desperate bid to return a gravely ill woman to Scotland from a Turkish hospital.
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Round-the-clock fire warden patrols are also under way at 19 "highest risk" NHS trusts.
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Offer NHS patients DNA tests to pick the best cancer and rare diseases treatment, England's top doctor says.
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The move would be "in the interests of public health and safety," say Greg Clark and Jeremy Hunt.
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A mother says a wasted operation on her son pushed her over the edge and spurred her into action.
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Weston General Hospital's emergency unit will be closed between 22:00 and 08:00 BST.
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People have a "confusing" array of choices for urgent care amid shortages of emergency doctors.
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F1 tech has influenced sectors from aeronautics to public transport - now healthcare is benefiting.
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They are urging all first-time students and school leavers to have the Men ACWY vaccine.
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Pope Francis calls for Charlie Gard's parents to be allowed to "treat their child until the end".
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Paul Wood resorted to thumbing a lift to attend his Personal Independence Payment assessment.
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Dozens complain to the watchdog about the campaign which some say is against breastfeeding in public.
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More should have been done to let patients know what was being done with their data, says a watchdog.
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The downward trend has been most pronounced among British staff, figures show.
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Many are distressed or embarrassed about the appearance of their genitals, a leading expert says.
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Scientists will investigate how behavioural therapy could help control difficult side effects.
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Girls as young as nine want surgery on their vagina because they are upset by its appearance, the Victoria Derbyshire show is told.
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The man's age, not just the woman's, has an impact on IVF success rates, say researchers.
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Zarina Brady explains why she and others from the UK are heading to Bulgaria to study medicine.
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Great Ormond Street Hospital says it is working on plans for terminally ill Charlie Gard's care.
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Trainee doctors head for Central and Eastern Europe to study, lured by high standards and lower costs.
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With Scotland set to join Wales in having an "opt-out" system for organ donation, why are England and Northern Ireland not following suit?
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The John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation is awarding a huge grant for a project which will make "real and measurable progress in solving a critical problem of our time".
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His parents criticise doctors for not allowing them to bring the 10-month-old home to die.
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Creative campaigns are needed to reach some groups of young women, researchers say.
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Doctors want an end to leaving the car running at the school gates.
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Ministers make concession ahead of threatened Commons rebellion over Queen's Speech.
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