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Ninety people took the drug in a clinical trial in France that has left one person brain-dead and another five in hospital, it is revealed.
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NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) says it will no longer seek the consent of families formally after the death of a registered donor to reduce the number of vetoed transplants.
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Online music videos are heavily exposing teenagers to positive depictions of smoking and drinking alcohol, new research suggests.
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One in four adults has been diagnosed with a mental illness at some stage during their lifetime, the annual health survey for England suggests
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Public health experts are calling for labels to be added to food and drink to show how much activity would be needed to burn off the calories consumed.
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Swansea University researchers who have trained computers to detect cancer cells using artificial intelligence algorithms say the new method drastically speeds up the process.
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A new death from Ebola is confirmed in Sierra Leone, hours after the World Health Organization declared the latest West Africa outbreak over.
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Taking readings of brain activity before patients go for surgery could help doctors give a more accurate dose of anaesthetic, researchers suggest.
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Pregnant women in the UK should soon get a safer and more accurate test for Down's syndrome, on the NHS, to reduce the risk of miscarriage.
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Bereaved families have blocked the donation of organs from 547 UK registered donors since 2010 - about one in seven cases, figures show.
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Callers to an out-of-hours GP service faced waits of more than 12 hours, posing a "significant risk to patient safety", a leaked report reveals.
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Medical researchers hope a new tissue bank will give them a clearer insight into pancreatic cancer.
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Thousands of nurses were denied permission to work in England last year, despite hospital staff shortages, new figures show.
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Liberia's Ebola epidemic is over, says the World Health Organization, effectively putting an end to the world's worst outbreak of the deadly disease.
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Hospitals in England continue to miss many of their waiting time targets, official figures for November show.
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Talks aimed at avoiding further NHS strikes in England are due to resume later, amid warnings the government could impose its controversial new contract on junior doctors.
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Giving HIV drugs to healthy gay men to prevent them being infected has huge potential to help reverse the epidemic, say scientists.
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Transgender people in the UK face "high levels of transphobia" on a daily basis and they have "a long way to go" to achieve equality in the UK, MPs say.
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The death of a woman just hours after she had given birth by Caesarean section was wholly avoidable, a court hears.
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Gaza medics back striking English junior doctors
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Attempts begin to avert a second doctors' strike in England, as hospitals battle to rearrange the thousands of operations postponed amid the dispute.
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A record number of military veterans are expected to take part in the Paralympics in Rio later this year.
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A sperm donor who claims he has fathered 800 children explains how he finds most of his clients on Facebook.
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Being overweight or obese may increase a man's risk of aggressive prostate cancer, researchers believe after doing animal and human cell studies.
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Eating potatoes or chips on most days of the week may increase a woman's risk of diabetes during pregnancy, say US researchers.
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Could eating only in eight-hour period tackle obesity?
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A model with cerebral palsy and dystonia is having deep-brain surgery which she hopes will help with mobility and is on a mission to fight misconceptions about disability.
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In 1995, Dr Konrad Maurer found the missing case study of the first ever Alzheimer's patient.
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The death of a six year-old girl who choked on a grape while on holiday in Gwynedd was accidental, a coroner rules.
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Junior doctors are urged to return to the negotiating table by the health secretary, as their union says the strike is sending a "clear message" to government.
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A hospital that ordered its junior doctors to return to work as thousands more went on strike across England says it has withdrawn the request.
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An external expert is to assist Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust to improve how it investigates deaths of patients with learning disabilities.
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Northern Ireland's junior doctors call on Stormont's health minister to say a new contract that led to a strike in England will not be imposed locally.
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Thousands of patients have treatments postponed as junior doctors in England go on strike for 24 hours in a dispute over a new contract.
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Nick Triggle looks at the possible impact of Tuesday's junior doctor strikes.
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A majority of the public in England support junior doctors' strike action so long as they provide emergency care, an Ipsos MORI poll commissioned by BBC Newsnight suggests.
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David Cameron has promised an "all-out assault on poverty" with a series of reforms that include better mental health services and mentoring schemes.
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A "very mild" strain of bird flu has been identified on a Fife farm, the Scottish government confirms.
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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust's board reiterates there would be no resignations over the failure to investigate hundreds of deaths, despite calls from families of those who died.
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An injured backpacker who inspired hundreds of people to donate blood at a Thailand hospital is out of "immediate danger", a friend says.
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The Royal College of Nursing is to ballot members over industrial action in response to a pay award which unions have described as an insult.
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David Cameron has urged junior doctors to call off their planned strike action.
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What do doctors involved in the 1975 strike think of their young colleagues today?
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As more and more people in China go under the knife in the name of beauty, the BBC visits one of a growing number of private cosmetic surgery clinics in Beijing.
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Junior doctors should suspend Tuesday's strike over pay and conditions while talks continue, the chief medical officer for England urges.
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Student nurses and midwives take part in marches in London, Manchester and Newcastle in protest at the government's decision to scrap their bursaries in England and replace them with loans.
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Charities say David Cameron must be "bold" and create an independent commission to examine growing pressures on health and social care.
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