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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.

Just keeping an eye on small prostate cancers results in the same 10-year survival rate as treating them, a major study suggests.

The failure to successfully prosecute a single case of female genital mutilation in the UK is "lamentable" and a "national scandal", MPs say.

A Scots nurse who survived Ebola is cleared of misconduct charges by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

A man performs a minor operation on himself to remove a suture left in his body during surgery, accepting it was reckless.

More than one million people in the UK rely on traditional forms of care - care homes, home help and nursing care - but there are plenty of other options.

A doctor quits after feeling obliged to advise a couple to bring their baby's remains home in a cooler bag following an abortion in England.

Several people in Northern Ireland have been diagnosed with the Zika virus, it emerges.

Patient care is being harmed by failures in a records-management service run for the NHS in England by Capita, doctors' leaders have said.

A look at how the different parts of the UK provide care to older people.

Memory loss is not an inevitable part of ageing, say scientists who are studying a unique group of people in their 60s and 70s who have "super sharp" minds.

The rise in popularity of e-cigarettes in the UK appears to be helping more smokers successfully quit smoking, say researchers.

Temperatures in southern England peak at 34.4C, making it the hottest day of the year so far, as heavy rain and thunderstorms batter other parts of England.

A Scots nurse who survived Ebola may not face charges of dishonesty at a misconduct hearing.

Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs.

Former nurse Lara Smith tells Victoria Derbyshire why she takes cannabis-based medicine.

BBC Newsnight meets the UK doctor who is directing life-saving surgery in the Syrian city of Aleppo via Skype.

Footage of a mum's water birth has gone viral after the baby arrives with relative ease following only a few contractions

A controversial anti-malarial drug will now only be prescribed to service personnel after a detailed check-up, the Ministry of Defence announces.

Cannabis for medical use should be made legal, says a cross-party group of UK politicians.

Campaign groups say a million people across the UK rely on cannabis for medical reasons, but how does it feel to break the law just to feel better?

The number of Welsh students applying to study medicine falls by 15% over the last five years, figures show.

A Nigerian woman has given birth to a boy on board a rescue ship in the Mediterranean after being plucked from an overcrowded rubber dinghy.

Girls growing up in parts of England have a much lower quality of life than others, according to analysis of official statistics.

Why doesn't your brain let you see all 12 dots at the same time?

The Malvern Death Café in Worcestershire is where people come to talk after losing a loved one.

Competitors prepare for a contest involving electronic arms and robotic exoskeletons.

School nurses are finding less time to do their job because of more child protection issues and excessive bureaucracy, research says.

NHS leaders in England say current standards of care cannot be maintained, let alone expanded to seven days unless the health service gets more money and staff.

A paralysed woman wearing a "bionic" suit completes the Great North Run, five days after she started it.

Will Quince MP says that parents who suffer the death of a child should be eligible for statutory bereavement leave.

Why we laugh, how we laugh and why other creatures laugh too.

Experts are calling for people to take more care around cliffs after a rise in the number of emergency service call-outs.

A woman who wants to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild is being allowed to take them to the US for treatment.

The number of drug-related deaths in England and Wales reached record levels last year, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.

Children aged four to 10 are consuming twice as much sugar as they should be and teenagers three times too much, a national survey of diets has found.

Lead author of a statins study Rory Collins explains the benefits of the drug.

Three-quarters of people are unaware being overweight increases the risk of developing 10 different types of cancer, Cancer Research UK says.

The benefits of the cholesterol-reducing drug statins are underestimated and the harms exaggerated, a major review suggests.

Parents in Finland are told to actively encourage their children to pursue hobbies and interests that require physical exertion for at least three hours a day.

Women should be advised that the coil is a more effective form of emergency contraception than the morning-after pill, new guidance says.

William Broadway explains how the vaccine cooler he designed works

Hospitals are facing record levels of delays in discharging patients, figures from NHS England show.

An 83-year-old nurse, who still works 15 to 20 hours a week, says she has "no plans" to retire.