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Black and ethnic minority staff working in the NHS are more likely to report being bullied or harassed than their white colleagues, the first national review by NHS England suggests.

A high-calorie, mega milkshake known as a "freakshake" is causing queues outside cafes and giving health campaigners sleepless nights.

A new organisation designed to make the NHS in England safer must have its independence guaranteed in law, a cross-party committee of MPs says.

Chris Roberts, his wife Jayne and daughter Kate recorded their experience of dementia using video diaries and CCTV.

Scientists say they have found a gene that causes a rare but inherited form of multiple sclerosis.

One in five people with motor neurone disease waits more than a year to see a brain specialist for help with diagnosis, a snapshot survey by the MND Association suggests.

The chief executive of a scandal-hit NHS trust that has come under scrutiny over emergency callouts leaves his job.

Charities express anger after NHS England confirms it will not fund a "game-changer" drug treatment that can prevent HIV.

Plain packaging for cigarettes is about to "go global" in a move that will have a "huge impact" on health, the World Health Organization says.

At least 2,234 people in India contracted the deadly HIV virus while getting blood transfusions in hospitals in the past 17 months.

Families of victims of the Winterbourne View scandal write to the prime minister demanding he shuts outdated care home institutions.

Almost 75% of older children in England and Wales with diabetes are not getting key health checks, a study suggests.

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The proposed sugar tax will "hit the poorest families hardest" and should be scrapped, the Taxpayers' Alliance says.

New data suggests more than half of us only go for a walk at work when we need the toilet.

Annual sickness levels among ambulance service staff are at the lowest level since 2012, figures show.

The NHS could save millions of pounds if families and doctors were offered mediation when they disagreed on a treatment, a leading consultant says.

A leading anaesthetist is calling for compulsory mediation between patients, or their relatives, and doctors who clash over the right form of treatment.

The World Health Organization has dismissed calls for the Rio Olympic Games to be moved because of the Zika outbreak in Brazil.

The World Health Organization plays down concerns that the Rio Olympics will spread the Zika virus, amid calls for the Games to be postponed.

Mental health services turned away more than a quarter of children referred for support without help in England in 2015, a report says.

More than a quarter of children referred for mental health support in England last year were turned away, according to a report from the Children's Commissioner.

The 96-year-old man behind the Heimlich manoeuvre has used the technique to save a woman choking at his retirement home.

Dr Henry Heimlich has used the Heimlich manoeuvre to save a choking woman at his retirement home.

Scotland's urban areas, particularly around Glasgow, have the highest lung disease mortality rates in Britain, according to a new report.

The Scottish nurse who survived Ebola says she has been left with permanent weakness in her leg and will probably never run again.

The first case of an infection that can resist the antibiotic of last resort - colistin - has been detected in the US.

Almost 12,000 people in England are still waiting to hear if they are due millions of pounds in backdated care fees.

Too many teenagers and young adults are dying of some types of cancer, a Europe-wide report warns.

A husband's online account of fertility problems strikes a chord

People with a disability are finding it increasingly difficult to get behind the wheel because of government reforms, according to two charities.

An Indian woman gives birth to a 15lb (6.82kg) baby girl, who doctors say could be the heaviest child ever born in the country.

A vaccine to reduce the risk of cancer is to be offered to homosexual men in England in a pilot scheme starting in June.

A family whose two-year-old son received a heart transplant after a 14-month wait in hospital say they have been given "a second chance at life".

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BBC journalist Victoria Derbyshire has completed six weeks of radiotherapy, her last major treatment for breast cancer.

The NHS in England must get a grip on the delays patients face in being released from hospital, as the problem causes unnecessary harm and wastes money, the National Audit Office says.

NHS England spending on private ambulances for 999 calls trebles to £68m in four years, data gathered by the BBC shows.

Exam pressures and physical health problems, like acne, are major contributory factors in the suicides of young people, according to new research.

A 60-year-old woman who wants to use her late daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild is continuing her legal battle.

Scientists studying the Zika outbreak in Brazil are becoming increasingly concerned the virus may cause eye damage in babies.

GPs in England have "dramatically" reduced the number of antibiotic prescriptions they prescribe to patients, latest figures reveal.

Plans to scrap student bursaries and charge nurses and other health staff for their degrees in England could backfire, unions are warning.

More than 12,000 people in England are now safer and being looked after better in care homes than they were two years ago, the Care Quality Commission says.

A football league exclusively for men who classed as obese has been launched in Somerset.

An NHS doctor left his family in the UK and joined the Islamic State group in Syria, the BBC learns from leaked IS recruitment papers.

Thousands of people with type-2 diabetes in the UK are missing out on obesity surgery that would slash blood sugars and even lead to remission in some cases, a team of experts say.