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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife want to tackle all diseases by the end if the century. Just how feasible is this aim?

The percentage of under-twos in England receiving most routine vaccinations is down slightly for the third year in a row, NHS figures show.

Medical correspondent Fergus Walsh demonstrates what can happen if a button battery gets lodged in a child's throat, after a warning from surgeons over the dangers.

IVF rates in England have fallen to a 12-year low, says a fertility charity.

Tens of thousands of operations were cancelled by English hospitals last year but not officially counted, figures seen by the BBC suggest.

The NHS should get a £5bn-a-year "Brexit bonus", former Conservative Health Secretary Andrew Lansley says.

Lots of people take glucosamine to help them with pains in their joints, but is there hard evidence that it improves things?

Universities are struggling to cope with rising demand for mental health services for students, says a think-tank report.

Thousands of post-menopausal women with breast cancer are missing out on cheap drugs that could prevent their disease spreading, research suggests.

Facebook's founder and his wife aim to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century.

Neglect by one of England's largest mental health trusts contributed to the death of a boy, a coroner rules.

Face-down physical restraint continues in mental health wards in England, despite the government and the NHS saying it should stop.

The 193 countries of the United Nations have agreed a landmark declaration to rid the world of drug-resistant infections or superbugs.

Some hospital appointments and surgery at Leeds hospitals are postponed because of a "significant" IT problem.

Professor Canavero says he's a year away from transplanting a head onto a totally different body and has lots of volunteers from the UK who want it done.

A gene from an almost indestructible microscopic creature could provide "radiation shield" for human cells, scientists find.

Wearing an activity device that counts how many steps you have taken does not appear to improve the chances of losing weight, research suggests.

Smokers say stress keeps them in the habit, as smoking rates in England hit a record low

A social worker involved in the case of murdered toddler Liam Fee is struck off after being found guilty of misconduct.

Teenage cigarette and alcohol use is declining across Europe but the numbers using cannabis are growing, an EU survey shows.

Smoking rates in England fall to the lowest on record at 16.9%, says Public Health England, with experts saying e-cigarettes may be behind the decline.

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board confirms plans to site a specialist vascular services unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire.

The Lib Dems are prepared to raise taxes to fund an NHS "that meets the needs of everyone", Tim Farron is to tell his party's annual conference.

File on 4 reveals new figures about the scale of alleged sex offences taking place in residential and nursing homes.

NHS doctors in England are to be made to declare their income from private work, under plans to increase transparency and avoid conflicts of interest

More than 70 suspected sex offences in NI adult care, nursing and residential homes have been reported to PSNI over the last three years, the BBC learns.

Bold health claims have been made for the power of turmeric. Is there anything in them, asks Michael Mosley.

Any child or teenager sending explicit images or messages on texts and emails is cause for concern and should be monitored, new guidelines for schools and health professionals in England advise.

Early diagnosis of disease is literally a matter of life and death, so the race is on to produce cheaper, faster, lighter kits to help doctors and nurses in the field.

A sharp rise in waits for care services is piling the pressure on the NHS in England, hospital bosses are warning.

A man who lost 22 stone (140kg) says it is impossible to meet the NHS criteria to have three stone (20kg) of excess skin removed.

The number of obese people being rescued by fire services because they are too large to move on their own rises by more than a third over the past three years in the UK.

Training exercise shows how emergency services cope with obese people who get stuck in their homes.

Junior doctors in England go to the High Court to try to stop the government imposing a new contract.

The black women using art to talk about mental health.

Researchers in Switzerland confirm what most people already know - drinking one glass of beer can make people more sociable.

Exposure to bright light can lead to greater sexual satisfaction in men with low sexual desire, a new study suggests.

Scientists in Cardiff are working on ways to improve health, creativity and emotional well-being using "sleep engineering".

When Carl Hillis was struck with cancer at the age of nine, he received bone marrow from a perfect stranger. Carl says donor Tony Blood is "like a brother".

Food manufacturers should be forced to put "traffic light" nutrition labels on all products, making the current voluntary scheme compulsory, councils say.

Politicians seem to have settled on a new unit of measuring public spending - the hospital. So how much does one actually cost?

Patients in Wales are being urged to be less passive and take more control of decisions about the care and treatments they receive, as part of a new medical movement.

Hundreds more cervical cancer patients' lives could be saved if all eligible women went for screening, says a study published in the British Journal of Cancer.

A heart and chest hospital becomes the first specialist hospital in the UK to be rated "outstanding" by the health watchdog.

A sharp rise in waits for care services is piling the pressure on the NHS in England, hospital bosses are warning.

A look at how a hospital and council in Liverpool are struggling to cope with the demands being placed on them.

Women taking an emergency contraceptive pill containing levonorgestrel are being advised to check the ingredients of other medicines they are taking because they could stop the pill working.

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

The family of a cancer patient who died two days after undergoing a medical procedure was not told about a surgical error during the operation, it emerges.

Napping for more than an hour during the day could be a warning sign for type-2 diabetes, Japanese researchers suggest.