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Dementia patients are playing Russian roulette with their health when they are admitted to hospital in England, a charity is warning.

Multiple sclerosis patient Steven Storey explains how a new treatment has improved his quality of life.

A man left brain-dead after an experimental drug trial in France has died, French media report.

Comedian Ted Robbins has returned to the place where he almost died after a cardiac arrest.

The Royal British Legion calls on the government to do more to help veterans with Gulf War Syndrome, as it marks 25 years since the conflict began.

Helping Kenyan couples have children without risk of HIV

A study in Kenya has found that HIV drugs could reduce transmission between couples where one partner has HIV and the other doesn't

BBC Radio Manchester presenter, Stephanie Hirst, reports on the challenges transgender children and their parents can face.

Moves to make smartphones and tablets less damaging to sleep have been praised by a leading doctor.

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.

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.

Online music videos are heavily exposing teenagers to positive depictions of smoking and drinking alcohol, new research suggests.

One in four adults has been diagnosed with a mental illness at some stage during their lifetime, the annual health survey for England suggests

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.

Swansea University researchers who have trained computers to detect cancer cells using artificial intelligence algorithms say the new method drastically speeds up the process.

A new death from Ebola is confirmed in Sierra Leone, hours after the World Health Organization declared the latest West Africa outbreak over.

Taking readings of brain activity before patients go for surgery could help doctors give a more accurate dose of anaesthetic, researchers suggest.

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.

Bereaved families have blocked the donation of organs from 547 UK registered donors since 2010 - about one in seven cases, figures show.

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.

Medical researchers hope a new tissue bank will give them a clearer insight into pancreatic cancer.

Thousands of nurses were denied permission to work in England last year, despite hospital staff shortages, new figures show.

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.

Hospitals in England continue to miss many of their waiting time targets, official figures for November show.

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.

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.

The death of a woman just hours after she had given birth by Caesarean section was wholly avoidable, a court hears.

Gaza medics back striking English junior doctors

Attempts begin to avert a second doctors' strike in England, as hospitals battle to rearrange the thousands of operations postponed amid the dispute.

A record number of military veterans are expected to take part in the Paralympics in Rio later this year.

A sperm donor who claims he has fathered 800 children explains how he finds most of his clients on Facebook.

The UK's 'most prolific sperm donor'

Do we need more than two genders?

Eating potatoes or chips on most days of the week may increase a woman's risk of diabetes during pregnancy, say US researchers.

Could eating only in eight-hour period tackle obesity?

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.

In 1995, Dr Konrad Maurer found the missing case study of the first ever Alzheimer's patient.

The death of a six year-old girl who choked on a grape while on holiday in Gwynedd was accidental, a coroner rules.

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.

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.

An external expert is to assist Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust to improve how it investigates deaths of patients with learning disabilities.

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.

Thousands of patients have treatments postponed as junior doctors in England go on strike for 24 hours in a dispute over a new contract.

How I discovered that I'm at risk of diabetes

Nick Triggle looks at the possible impact of Tuesday's junior doctor strikes.

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.

David Cameron has promised an "all-out assault on poverty" with a series of reforms that include better mental health services and mentoring schemes.

A "very mild" strain of bird flu has been identified on a Fife farm, the Scottish government confirms.