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Bold health claims have been made for the power of turmeric. Is there anything in them, asks Michael Mosley.

Any child or teenager sending explicit images or messages on texts and emails is cause for concern and should be monitored, new guidelines for schools and health professionals in England advise.

Early diagnosis of disease is literally a matter of life and death, so the race is on to produce cheaper, faster, lighter kits to help doctors and nurses in the field.

A sharp rise in waits for care services is piling the pressure on the NHS in England, hospital bosses are warning.

A man who lost 22 stone (140kg) says it is impossible to meet the NHS criteria to have three stone (20kg) of excess skin removed.

The number of obese people being rescued by fire services because they are too large to move on their own rises by more than a third over the past three years in the UK.

Training exercise shows how emergency services cope with obese people who get stuck in their homes.

Junior doctors in England go to the High Court to try to stop the government imposing a new contract.

The black women using art to talk about mental health.

Researchers in Switzerland confirm what most people already know - drinking one glass of beer can make people more sociable.

Exposure to bright light can lead to greater sexual satisfaction in men with low sexual desire, a new study suggests.

Scientists in Cardiff are working on ways to improve health, creativity and emotional well-being using "sleep engineering".

When Carl Hillis was struck with cancer at the age of nine, he received bone marrow from a perfect stranger. Carl says donor Tony Blood is "like a brother".

Food manufacturers should be forced to put "traffic light" nutrition labels on all products, making the current voluntary scheme compulsory, councils say.

Politicians seem to have settled on a new unit of measuring public spending - the hospital. So how much does one actually cost?

Patients in Wales are being urged to be less passive and take more control of decisions about the care and treatments they receive, as part of a new medical movement.

Hundreds more cervical cancer patients' lives could be saved if all eligible women went for screening, says a study published in the British Journal of Cancer.

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.