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An Australian woman gives birth to twins conceived 10 days apart after having hormone treatment.
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The creation of new nursing assistant posts should be scrapped and money invested in "real nurses", experts say.
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Black women in England are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than white women.
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Wales needs a "relentless drive" towards earlier cancer diagnosis as the government publishes its revised cancer plan.
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None of Northern Ireland's health trusts is meeting their waiting time target for people with mental health problems like anxiety and depression.
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At least one in every four women invited for cervical cancer screening in England last year failed to attend, latest figures show.
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A surgeon who was jailed over patient's death at private hospital in north-west London wins an appeal against his conviction.
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Patients with prostate cancer speak to the BBC about living with the disease.
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Cash to boost child mental health care is not making it to front-line services, says a report.
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Molecules found on mobile phones can reveal a lot about the owner's lifestyle, scientists say.
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While fitness wearables grab the headlines, it's the clinically proven health monitoring gadgets that could save thousands of lives - and lots of money.
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As figures show dementia is now the leading cause of death in England and Wales, one woman recounts the "distressing" way the condition affected her late mother.
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A nurse faces misconduct charges over claims she hid Ebola survivor Pauline Cafferkey's high temperature.
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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.
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An email that was accidentally sent to 840,000 members of the NHS's staff in England causes havoc.
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NHS chiefs have tried to keep local plans to cut hospital services in England secret, a study finds.
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Dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, is now the leading cause of death in England and Wales.
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An ambulance service worker who refused to call the emergency services gives birth in a car on the way to hospital.
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Pleas for pregnant women to protect themselves against flu this winter are backed by health bodies.
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Health services are attempting to reach deprived communities by offering them mobile cancer screening.
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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.
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What lies behind the link between cancer and poverty and how do you break it?
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At least half of the alcohol sold in Scotland does not meet impending minimum pricing legislation, a survey suggests.
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Sore throat sufferers will be asked to visit a pharmacist, not a GP, to see if they need antibiotics, NHS England says.
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Very stressful events affect the brains of girls and boys in different ways, a study suggests.
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New research warns that infants under four weeks shouldn't travel in car seats for more than 30 minutes.
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A contract to provide community health and care in Bath and North East Somerset over the next seven years is approved for Virgin Care.
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Junior doctors call off the threat of industrial action over their new contract.
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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.
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More than 150 British people, including children, affected by overseas terrorist attacks are using mental health services in the UK.
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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.
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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.
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Ivory Coast bans the production, importation and sale of alcohol in sachets to reduce alcoholism.
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The NHS in England has the power to fund the HIV-preventative drug, Prep, the Court of Appeal has decided.
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People who were in the scouts or guides in childhood have better mental health in later life, a study suggests.
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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.
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An implant that beams instructions out of the brain is used to restore movement in paralysed primates.
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The NHS in England is considering whether to ban or impose a tax on sugary drinks sold in hospitals.
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An inspection of the Ulster Hospital flags up issues with staffing levels, patient care records and training.
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Thousands of hospital bed days could be saved every year if occupational therapists were used more to help patients, a report says.
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Scientists say they may have found a way to protect babies in the womb from the harmful effects of Zika.
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Around one in six cases of breast cancer begins with symptoms other than a suspect lump, experts advise.
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Council cuts to care in England are so severe there is a real risk families may take legal action, experts say.
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Some parents are now hiring sleep consultants to help their baby get to sleep. That's great for the parents, but is it good for the child?
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First Minister Arlene Foster agrees to support Thalidomide victims seeking compensation for victims from the German government.
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Plans to ban smoking in playgrounds are part of new public health laws being put forward for a second time.
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More than 9,000 patients' records have gone missing since private firm Capita took over NHS file transferring services, a BBC survey shows.
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Public health bodies issue advice to the over-65s and those with health problems on how to handle the cold weather.
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A project aimed at reducing the number of children in care by offering contraception is to extend its work.
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Bacteria living deep inside the digestive system seems to alter how cancer drugs work, a study suggests.
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