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Tuesday night's Radio 1 and 1Xtra Stories explores the future of the pill and what could come next. Here are four possibilities.

Tonight's Radio 1 and 1Xtra Stories explores the future of the pill and what could come next. Here are four possibilities.

Patients could be asked to show two forms of identification before they are treated, says health chief.

Dr Meirion Thomas says patients should have to prove they are eligible for NHS treatment

Dementia is now the leading cause of death in England and Wales, but the proportion of people with dementia is falling. How is this explained?

Wendy Mitchell, who has early onset dementia, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme how her benefits have stopped following a reassessment.

Thousands of people living with degenerative conditions are losing part or all of their disability benefits after being reassessed.

UK teenagers drink enough sugar every year to fill a bath with fizzy cola, a Cancer Research UK study suggests.

There is growing evidence that the dementia crisis may not be as bad as first feared, say researchers.

When it comes to fruit and vegetables, two-a-day might be more realistic advice to give to families says one of the UK's leading doctors.

Parents whose babies died during childbirth at an East Ayrshire hospital call for a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding their deaths.

A TV presenter's campaign changed the way we put our babies to sleep and helped save thousands of lives.

A former minister urges the government to use tax breaks to help people save for care in later life.

Mandy Littlewood has polycystic kidney disease and needed an organ transplant. Two of her children also have the condition.

More than 400 NHS patients and staff were referred to police over radicalisation fears in a year.

A series of care failures in a privately run nursing home are secretly filmed by the BBC.

A series of shocking incidents in a privately run residential nursing home in Cornwall is secretly filmed by the BBC.

Chris Vallance looks at whether the weaker pound could cost the NHS, or create problems for its suppliers

The World Health Organization says the Zika virus needs "enduring action" not emergency status now.

The proportion of women having at least one child by age 20 has fallen to its lowest level in decades, the ONS says.

We tackle some of the ethical issues around preserving bodies cryogenically after death.

Former heroin addict Chris Foltz tells the BBC's World Have Your Say how a prescription for painkillers from a dentist, led him to heroin addiction and prison.

Vasectomy operations on men in Kenya are live streamed from a theatre in the capital as part a campaign to promote the sterilisation procedure.

Bagged salad can fuel the growth of food-poisoning bugs like Salmonella and make them more dangerous, a study says.

Waiting times will rise and staff numbers cut unless the NHS gets more money, health bosses say.

Abbie, a 16-year-old helped by Children in Need, shares her story on losing both parents to cancer.

Nine former health secretaries voice "alarm" at the failure to improve mental health services.

A girl won a historic legal fight shortly before she died to have her body cryogenically preserved.

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

Heidi Loughlin, a terminally-ill mother of two boys, describes trying to prepare them for her own death.

The BBC's World Have Your Say programme visits Nashville, Tennessee, once famed for its music industry, but now the home to multi-billion dollar healthcare firms.

A man has told BBC 5 live that his porn addiction resulted in him suffering from erectile dysfunction.

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.