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What doctors can learn from pilots and cyclists

Greater Manchester will become the first English region to gain control of its health spending on Friday.

There are now more adults in the world classified as obese than underweight, a major study suggests.

Greater Manchester will become the first English region to gain control of its health spending on Friday.

UK pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline says it wants to make it easier for manufacturers in the world's poorest countries to copy its medicines so more people can have access to them.

A national review of end-of-life care finds many hospitals in England are failing to provide face-to-face palliative care specialists around the clock.

Scientists are beginning work to genetically test tumours from children with cancer, in the hope this will give younger patients access to newer medicines.

How one child survivor of brain cancer hopes a new test will improve treatments available for the disease.

Ebola is no longer an "extraordinary health event" and the risk of the virus spreading is low, the World Health Organization says.

One hundred new nurse training places will be made available in Northern Ireland, the health minister says.

Medical leaders say the planned all-out strike by junior doctors in England at the end of April could be damaging to patients and should be suspended.

Care services for the elderly and disabled could hit "breaking point" when the new National Living Wage comes into effect, councils say.

An amputee says he paid nearly £10,000 on a prosthetic limb because he was not told he could have been entitled to a similar one on the NHS.

People in Middlesbrough are warned not to go to A&E after eating "one too many" Easter eggs.

A Christian magistrate who was sacked over comments he made on TV against same-sex adoption is suspended by a Kent NHS trust.

Meet the "pyjama fairies" - volunteers who work at a charity which makes colourful gowns to brighten up hospital stays for children.

'My son had two or three accidents a day'

Ayan Panja tests different forms of transport to see how you can avoid the most dangerous forms of air pollution.

A woman from Twickenham who survived leukaemia meets the man who donated the stem cells which saved her life.

Out of 100 people needing mental health care in India, only 25 receive it. A mobile app has been developed in an attempt to close this treatment gap.

New York's Tribeca Film Festival will not show Vaxxed, a controversial film about the MMR vaccine, its founder Robert De Niro says.

Phone app 'bridges treatment gap' in rural India

The Department of Health is giving £10m to a fast-track scheme training graduates to become social workers in community mental health teams.

Weaker beers, ciders, wines and spirits are what is needed to tackle drink-related health problems, local councils in England and Wales say.

Disabled people are only an "afterthought" for the government, a House of Lords report says. Wheelchair user Dave Thompson explains that his biggest issue is with public transport.

Tom Coledridge was paralysed six years ago after being shot in Afghanistan, he explains the accessibility issue he faces on a daily basis as a wheelchair user.

A Dudley teenager who lived on a diet of chicken nuggets, chips and white bread uses hypnotherapy to help.

The variation in care women get when giving birth in hospital in England is concerning, experts say.

A council investigates how a 93-year-old woman was left to live alone in "shocking" conditions despite carers being paid to look after her.

A doctor who gave a patient a vasectomy by mistake at a Merseyside hospital will be allowed to continue to practise, a medical panel rules.

Charities say NHS England's "eleventh hour decision to pull the plug" on game-changing HIV prevention drugs is leaving people at risk.

A lesbian couple who have been unable to get free fertility treatment in Northern Ireland say they are being indirectly discriminated against because of their sexuality.

Targets for A&E waiting times are missed again, as ministers say departments were "busier than ever" in February.

Adults in England have cut their average salt consumption by nearly a gram in the last decade, but at 8g per day it is still above the recommended 6g for good health, figures reveal.

South Korea says it has diagnosed its first case of the Zika virus, in a man who had recently returned from Brazil.

People in England at risk of type-2 diabetes are to be offered healthy-lifestyle support by the NHS to help them prevent the condition developing.

The only recommendation of the inquiry into contaminated blood products has still not been implemented, according to lawyers representing victims.

Patients with prostate cancer in England will now have early access to a drug that can delay the need for chemotherapy.

How will Eddie Izzard recover from 27 marathons?

Chinese citizens react with alarm at news of a massive illegal vaccine operation uncovered in Shandong province, said to involve hundreds of people.

Rules to make sure there are enough nurses at work in hospitals should be extended, the Welsh Liberal Democrats will say on Monday.

A confidential whistleblowing line for NHS staff in Scotland has been extended for a year.

'I nearly died in a medical drug trial'

Over the past two decades, Taiwan has learned how best to help those affected by disasters not only return to a normal life, but also deal with the psychological impact.

People who contracted hepatitis C through infected blood transfusions in Scotland will get increased financial support, Scottish ministers announce.

Parents of children with type 1 diabetes criticise the sugar tax

Guinea confirms two new Ebola cases, almost three months after it celebrated the end of the outbreak.

Health and education will be squeezed by more than £1bn because of changes to the way public sector pensions are funded, figures seen by the BBC show.

GPs could spend longer with their patients if physiotherapists worked alongside them at their surgery, says the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

People with autism are dying earlier than the general population, often through epilepsy or suicide, a charity warns.