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Foetuses still in the womb will be injected with stem cells in order to prevent disease in the first such trial of its type.
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Victoria Derbyshire had a mastectomy to treat her breast cancer last month, she recorded a video diary about her treatment.
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A cancer charity is offering £100m in research money for international scientists to come up with new approaches to beating cancer.
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Today I had a mastectomy. I feel all right, I can't believe it - Victoria Derbyshire
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How flying high helped inventor create breathing machine
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The family of nurse Pauline Cafferkey says doctors "missed a big opportunity" to spot she had fallen ill again.
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Tax on tobacco should be raised to persuade smokers to quit, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health says.
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Researchers at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, say that Dutch cyclists live longer than people who do not use a bike.
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A Brazilian mother's fight to give birth naturally
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More maternity units are shutting their doors to patients as the NHS comes under increasing pressure, the Royal College of Midwives warns.
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More than 90% of England's hospices inspected so far have been rated as "good" or "outstanding", the care watchdog says.
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Nurse Pauline Cafferkey remains in a "serious condition" after being readmitted to the isolation unit where she was previously treated for Ebola.
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BBC News looks at how it is possible for Ebola survivors to contract the virus again.
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A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone last year is in a "serious condition" after being readmitted to an isolation unit in London.
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NHS trusts in England have racked up a £930m deficit in the first three months of the financial year - that is more than the entire overspend last year.
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Actor and model Elizabeth Hurley tells the Victoria Derbyshire programmed why she is campaigning for better awareness of what happens to women after a breast cancer diagnosis.
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A new study warns that a third of all men currently under the age of 20 in China will die prematurely if they do not give up smoking.
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Elephants have enhanced defences against cancer that can prevent tumours forming, say scientists.
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A leading dementia charity says too few services for the elderly take into account the needs of Britain's ageing African Caribbean population.
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A blood test can more than halve the number of people admitted to A&E with a suspected heart attack, say doctors.
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A law proposing the ban on smoking in cars carrying children passes its first hurdle in the Scottish Parliament.
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The first drug to slow the decline in patients with primary-progressive multiple sclerosis has been reported.
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has hinted he may compromise in the junior doctor contract dispute in an attempt to get union leaders back into talks.
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A miniature human kidney has been grown in a petri dish by scientists in Australia.
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The antiviral drug Tamiflu was handed out "indiscriminately" during the last swine flu outbreak, a leading panel of UK scientists warns.
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A blood test can more than halve the number of people admitted to hospital with a suspected heart attack, say doctors.
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The three West African countries at the heart of the Ebola epidemic record their first week with no new cases since the outbreak began in March 2014.
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A 10-year-old boy who has jaw cancer and needs urgent surgery has vanished, a High Court judge says.
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A new report advises pregnant women to avoid alcohol completely. Two mothers who drank while expecting give their reaction.
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A toddler is expected to make a full recovery after a near-fatal car accident caused his head to detach from his spine.
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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for discoveries in DNA repair.
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Ovarian transplants are a safe and effective way for women who have had cancer to have their own children, a study suggests.
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A new drug for advanced skin cancer should be made available on the NHS in England, a health body has recommended.
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Two-thirds of older and disabled people who turn to their local councils in England for help with care are turned away, figures show.
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New organ donation rules which presume consent are finalised by AMs.
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Inquests will be held into the deaths of a number of patients at care homes at the centre of an alleged abuse scandal in south Wales.
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A re-think of immigration rules which protect ballet dancers but not vital foreign nurses need re-thinking, the head of the NHS in England says.
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Health watchdogs link a Dundee company to an outbreak of E. coli which affected nine people across Scotland.
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A doctor called off attempts to save a six-year-old boy because she mistakenly thought he had a "do not resuscitate' order, a manslaughter trial hears.
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Scotland's health minister apologises to women who were left with severe complications following a procedure to treat prolapse and bladder problems.
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Childless British Asian couples could consider using donor eggs from Caucasian women to avoid waiting or missing out on having a baby, says a fertility specialist.
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What different countries say about assisted dying
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End-of-life care in the UK has been ranked as the best in the world with a study praising the quality and availability of services.
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The UK provides the best care in the world for people nearing the end of their lives, according to a new study.
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A donor from Germany who was a perfect match for a girl whose life was saved by a bone marrow transplant has come to Warwickshire to meet her.
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A look at the work that won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine