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A spike in the number of deaths in England and Wales last year was due to an increase in dementia and respiratory diseases such as flu among older people, according to official figures.

Wide discrepancies exist in waiting times for mental health treatment for eating disorders in England, a BBC investigation finds.

Plans have been made to deal with a "difficult" second day of the junior doctors' strike, NHS England says.

How much exercise does it take to burn off that chocolate bar?

An under-fire health trust, criticised after a teenager drowned in a bath, is told to significantly improve protection of mental health patients.

A woman from Northern Ireland who has taken abortion pills bought online has said she has done nothing to be ashamed of.

The chief executive of a NHS trust criticised by the Care Quality Commission over its failure to investigate deaths says she will not resign.

Junior doctors in England begin a fourth walkout in their long-running contract dispute with the government.

The world is facing an "unrelenting march" of diabetes which now affects one in 11 people, the World Health Organization warns.

The world is facing an "unrelenting march" of diabetes which now affects one-in-11 people, the World Health Organization has warned.

Junior doctors in England begin a fourth walkout in their long-running contract dispute with the government.

An Australian mother who passed the potentially fatal whooping cough infection to her newborn says she regrets refusing the vaccination.

An Australian mother who passed the potentially fatal whooping cough infection to her newborn says she regrets refusing the vaccination.

Too many children are being incorrectly diagnosed with asthma, with inhalers becoming almost "fashion accessories", two specialists say.

Too many children are being incorrectly diagnosed with asthma, with inhalers becoming almost "fashion accessories", two specialists say.

A mother in Nebraska in the US has heard the heartbeat of a man who received her son's heart in a transplant.

A second legal challenge is made over the government's decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors in England, after a campaign group raised £100,000 online.

As the internet becomes a picture-led domain, Facebook launches a service for visually impaired people to 'see' photos using artificial intelligence.

As the internet becomes a picture-led domain, Facebook launches a service for visually impaired people to 'see' photos using artificial intelligence.

Singing in a choir may be just what the doctor ordered for cancer patients, according to scientists.

Why babies all over the world now are in cardboard beds

Popping, locking and krumping are probably not moves that you have heard of, but they are all part of a fitness craze that is growing in popularity.

Councils in England and Wales are calling for tougher penalties for "rogue" beauticians who offer teeth whitening using dangerous kits.

"Rogue" beauticians who offer teeth whitening and people who sell illegal kits should face tougher penalties, councils in England and Wales say.

"Rogue" beauticians who offer teeth whitening and people who sell illegal kits should face tougher penalties, councils in England and Wales say.

Greater Manchester's £6bn health and social care budget is taken over by regional leaders, as part of an extension of devolved powers.

Nikki Fox has been to meet the young star of a campaign which is trying to raise awareness of autism

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