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Meet Fama Ka, the visually impaired woman who runs free braille classes to teach blind people in her neighbourhood how to read.

UN health experts recommend cutting the standard dose of yellow fever vaccine by 80% in emergencies, amid an outbreak in Angola and DR Congo.

New research by the BBC's Breakfast programme shows an increase in the number of people in England and Wales who are middle-aged or elderly and struggling with eating disorders.

Rebecca Rosen, a GP from a busy London practice, says pressures on the service risk "budget airline" style medicine.

Intensive physical exercise four hours after learning is the key to remembering information learnt, say Dutch researchers.

A pioneering pair of cancer drugs that unleash the immune system on tumours will be paid for by the NHS in England.

The US city of Philadelphia introduces a tax on carbonated sugary drinks, despite a multimillion-dollar campaign by the beverage industry to block it.

Two leading public health organisations call for the possession and personal use of all illegal drugs to be decriminalised in the UK.

A "consistently failing" NHS patient helpline is rated inadequate in a "damning" report.

One of the UK's busiest ambulance services is being investigated after reports of bullying and harassment and a dispatch system described as "unfit for purpose".

An ambulance trust is being investigated after reports of bullying and harassment and an "unfit for purpose" dispatch system.

The cancer risk of coffee has been downgraded, with experts concluding there is inadequate evidence to suggest it causes the disease.

The UK is seeing a small but "extremely worrying" rise in the number of children developing a type of diabetes that is linked to obesity and unhealthy lifestyles, experts warn.

A coroner says gifted teenager, Edward Mallen, who took his own life fell through the cracks of an underfunded mental health service.

The World Health Organization sees a "very low risk" of the Zika virus spreading internationally as a result of the Brazil Olympics.

The Department of Health says it's going to review a law which means that gay men can't donate for 12 months after having sex.

Opinion is divided over the threat to visitors at this summer's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, as Wyre Davies reports.

5 live finds out how pathologists are conducting post-mortems without the need for a scalpel.

Scotland's first graduate entry courses for medicine are to start at St Andrews and Dundee University in 2018.

More than half of organs transplanted since a new system came into effect were from people whose consent was deemed.

Over half of children living in Northern Ireland's most deprived areas are living with an adult smoker.

Young people today are more clean-living than any generation since before the 1960s. What is driving the rise of the new young fogey?

Malnutrition is sweeping the world, fuelled by obesity as well as starvation, new research suggests.

Some 13,000 men in England could benefit from a laser treatment to manage symptoms from an enlarged prostate, the NHS is being advised.

More needs to be done to tackle the stigma around albinism in Britain, a support group says, so what is it like for those who live with the condition?

Checking our work emails and social media accounts at all hours of the day is making us more stressed, research suggests, but what can we do about it?

Adverts promoting negative body images will be banned across the Transport for London (TfL) network from next month.

Access to fertility treatment will be widened in Scotland to make it the "fairest and most generous in the UK", the Scottish government announces.

A woman who left an abusive voice message for a mother whose son died at a mental health unit is an employee of the unit's NHS trust, police say.

A charity has launched a judicial review challenging the NHS' decision not to fund a so called "game-changer" drug treatment that can prevent HIV.

Shoppers are being offered CT scans in north Manchester in a bid to spot lung disease in smokers.

A robot that can decide whether or not to inflict pain is demonstrated by roboticist and artist Alexander Reben.

One in three women over 50 has delayed or not attended their cervical screening test which should take place every five years, according to a survey from a cervical cancer charity.

Patients in the most deprived areas of England face poorer levels of care due to an over-reliance on locum GPs, the British Medical Association warns.

A PA system is launched at hospitals in mid and west Wales to discourage smokers from lighting up.

Art may bring real pleasure to people's lives but can it also help them if they are faced with ill health?

The doctor behind a groundbreaking IVF technique which prevents disabling genetic disorders from being passed on to future generations is knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

The growing crisis in workforce morale is a greater risk to the NHS than the financial problems it is grappling with, a leading health expert says.

A strong form of chemotherapy followed by a stem cell transplant can halt the progression of multiple sclerosis, a small study published in The Lancet suggests.

A major report into mistakes made in maternity units across the UK has found significant failings.

There are too many poor quality investigations into babies who die or are severely brain damaged during labour, a review says.

After months of pressure on accident and emergency services in England, there's a slight improvement in waiting times.

Health inspectors rate a hospital's A&E "inadequate" because of its "chaotic" emergency department.

Thousands of counterfeit and potentially defective condoms are seized in West Yorkshire as part of a global crackdown on illicit medicines.

The body builder who is using social media to document his battle with a neurological disorder

In an interview with the BBC News website, AstraZeneca boss Pascal Soriot talks about how it is an exciting time for the cancer drugs world, but says there is no point giving free drugs to Africa.

More than 2,000 Indians have contracted HIV while receiving blood transfusions in hospitals in the past 17 months because of the country's poor blood safety standards, writes Chapal Mehra.

One of the main types of blood cancer is not one but 11 distinct diseases, detailed genetic analysis suggests.

High demand on Wigan hospital's A&E department is partially blamed on the temporary closure of a nearby casualty unit.