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The World Health Organization is holding an emergency meeting in Geneva today to decide whether to declare the Zika outbreak an international public health emergency.

El Salvador works to contain the spread of the virus

The country that donates eyes to the rest of the world

On Monday, the World Health Organization will meet to discuss whether the Zika virus - which is spreading rapidly through Latin America - should be declared an international emergency.

Doctors in Switzerland say they have separated eight-day-old conjoined sisters - believed to be the youngest ever to be successfully parted.

Almost 14,000 assaults have been carried out on NHS Scotland staff in the last nine months, new figures reveal.

An independent review is to be carried out of the way drugs are assessed for use on the NHS in Scotland.

Researchers in the UK hope that a phone app could help monitor the progress of patients with Parkinson's disease.

The doctor who delivers India's girls for nothing

The lengths to which men go to be at their baby's birth

Raluca Vinson's son Alexander was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour in July 2015 and, at just two years of age, the toddler underwent proton beam therapy.

The steps Brazil is taking to counter Zika

A surge in demand in A&E units is causing real problems for hospitals, NHS bosses are warning.

Rates of breastfeeding in the UK are the lowest in the world, an international study shows.

Why the mosquito that spreads virus is flourishing

The Ugandan forest where the deadly Zika virus was first discovered

The Zika virus, which is said to be spreading "explosively", was forest discovered in a forest in Uganda.

The first NHS hospital to be privately run will remain in special measures after the Care Quality Commission said it "requires improvement".

President Dilma Rousseff calls on the whole of Brazilian society to help combat the spread of the Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects.

Unacceptably short 15-minute home care visits to elderly and disabled people are still plaguing the care system in England, a report suggests.

Hand transplants are to be carried out on the NHS, with the "highly complex procedure" available from April, health officials say.

A group of doctors and health experts is urging the House of Lords to support a bill to lower the drink-driving limit across the whole of the UK.

Researchers are using new genetic technology to try to contain the spread of the Zika virus by mosquitoes.

Three to four million people could be infected with Zika in the Americas this year, the World Health Organization says.

Strains of HIV are becoming resistant to an antiretroviral drug commonly used to prevent and fight the virus, research suggests.

A doctor and hospital trust are cleared of the manslaughter of a woman who died following a Caesarean birth after a landmark trial collapsed.

The World Health Organization holds a special session on the Zika virus

A British woman is told by doctors she is the first person in the world to have a pancreas transplant because of a severe needle phobia.

NHS patients in Wales wait longer for treatment and diagnosis than patients in England for most of the main categories, BBC Wales can reveal.

Researchers in the US urge the World Health Organisation to take urgent action over the zika virus, linked to shrunken brains in unborn children

Older people in need of urgent help are being failed by the NHS, a group of English and Welsh health leaders say.

The BBC's James Cook goes inside the high-security laboratory racing against the clock to develop a treatment for the Zika virus.

US scientists studying the Zika virus tell the BBC that it could be a decade before a vaccine is publicly available.

Pregnant women will no longer have rubella screening in England, officials announce.

Thousands of High Street pharmacies in England face closure following Department of Health plans to cut NHS funding by £170m, a government minister says.

US President Barack Obama calls for the rapid development of treatments against the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects.

The Zika virus, an alarming and disturbing infection that may be linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains, is spreading through the Americas. But what exactly is it?

Most health professionals believe there are not enough mental health services for children who have suffered sexual abuse, an NSPCC survey suggests.

Viviane Lima created a WhatsApp support group to help answer questions from parents worrying about Zika virus

A cancer patient who had her baby early would have made "some very different decisions" about her treatment had she known her daughter would die, she tells the BBC.

Pregnant Britons are being advised to reconsider travel to areas where Zika virus outbreaks are happening.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says the NHS will learn from serious failings that led to the death of a one-year-old boy.

Scientists have used a pioneering balloon technique as a "last chance" treatment to help a patient with severe heart failure.

NHS England promises to learn lessons after a one year old died of sepsis which was not diagnosed when his mother called the 111 helpline or by GPs.

The parents of a three-year-old toddler who underwent an innovative kidney transplant that involved 3D printing say they are "very fortunate".

Police, fire and ambulance services in England should share control rooms to improve their response to 999 calls, a Home Office minister says.

The mother of William Mead describes the moment she reached into his cot and discovered he was dead when she "touched his arm and he was cold".

The threat of the Zika virus has now become international, but the alarm was raised in Brazil last year when a growing number of cases of microcephaly began to emerge.

Doctors say unconscious infants and children should be put in the recovery position, after a study finds dangerous manoeuvres are sometimes used instead.