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A charity appeal set up by a cancer-stricken mother whose baby daughter died at the weekend raises 60 times its original target.
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Free wi-fi is to be provided in all NHS buildings in England in a bid to improve services and reduce costs, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says.
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The vast majority of hospitals in England are struggling to recruit enough nurses, NHS figures show.
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A majority of NHS hospitals in England are failing to recruit enough nurses to provide safe levels of staffing, official figures show.
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The Australian state of Tasmania is considering raising the legal age for buying cigarettes to as high as 25, giving it some of the world's toughest tobacco laws.
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Suzanne Vanhooymissen has been to Ghana - to see if doctors could help couples to conceive - using a low-cost IVF treatment.
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Deaths linked to a commonly prescribed class of drug, used to treat anxiety and insomnia, reach record levels.
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'Mad Friday', the last working Friday in December, is one of the biggest drinking nights of the year, but leads many to take part in 'Dry January'.
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Revellers are warned to drink responsibly, amid fears of an increase in alcohol-fuelled emergencies on the last weekend before Christmas.
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A&E units across the UK are not equipped to cope with the rising demands being seen this winter, emergency care doctors say.
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More babies are born on days at the end of September in England and Wales than at any other time of the year.
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UK experts back a call for flour to be fortified with folic acid, which they say would have prevented about 2,000 cases of serious birth defects since 1998.
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A review into the way deaths are investigated throughout the NHS has been announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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A hospital doctor has been on the run for more than four years after filming up women's skirts in an Essex shopping centre.
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Doctors say there is now "encouraging" evidence that an annual blood test for ovarian cancer may cut deaths by a fifth.
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Children as young as five will be encouraged to be more active through community sport investment
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Cancer is overwhelmingly a result of environmental factors and not largely down to bad luck, a study by doctors in New York suggests.
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Cancer is overwhelmingly a result of environmental factors and not largely down to bad luck, a study suggests.
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School pupils in Blackpool, Lancashire, have been seeing if they could give up sugar-laden fizzy drinks for 21 days.
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Fewer patients die after emergency surgery in hospitals that have more doctors and nurses, a study suggests.
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A man plays the saxophone as surgeons remove a tumour from his brain.
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The Taliban attack on the army-run school in Peshawar a year ago was a watershed moment for Pakistan where the military vowed to root out home grown militants but it's frontline soldiers who are paying the price.
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Around two million people who need a hearing aid do not even realise they have problems, the annual health survey for England suggests.
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The NHS trust that ran Stafford Hospital is fined £500,000 for "basic" blunders linked to the deaths of four patients, a court hears.
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Doctors and nurses are being urged to move away from a "tick-box approach" to end-of-life care, in new NICE guidelines for England.
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Despite repeated pleas and negotiations, a life-extending breast cancer drug will not be routinely offered on the NHS in England and Wales.
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Doctors and nurses are being urged to treat dying patients as individuals rather than making "snap decisions" about their care by health watchdog NICE.
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Women who are heavy or habitual smokers are likely to experience the menopause 21 months earlier than those who have never smoked, a study suggests.
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Money problems in the NHS in England are becoming "endemic" - and despite extra money promised by government, there is no guarantee the service will get back on track, auditors say.
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A neurological rehabilitation centre where poor care of a brain-damaged patient was filmed secretly by worried relatives is to close.
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The UK's advertising watchdog probes claims made by Nurofen Express - a day after Australia took products off its shelves for stating they worked for specific pains when they were identical.
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An under-pressure ambulance service boss says his staff are "pushed to the limit" every day as the trust fails to hit performance targets.
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A mother who gave birth to her daughter 12 weeks early in order to be treated for cancer says she "can't wait to start chemo".
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Nurses in Northern Ireland are set to vote on whether or not they will take industrial action, short of walking out on strike, in a dispute over pay.
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More space to treat premature babies will be created at Wales' biggest hospital in a £7.5m modernisation plan.
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Ambulance staff say alcohol is a factor in more than half of all the incidents they attend on evenings and at weekends.
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Two nurses are jailed and a third given a community sentence for faking blood glucose test results on patients.
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A doctor and nurse who "seriously neglected" a six-year-old boy who died in hospital are given suspended sentences for his manslaughter.
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A computer project for the NHS 24 telephone helpline which is currently running £41m over budget was praised in a Scottish government report, it has emerged.
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The UK maker of the Nurofen specific pain range of products defends their packaging, after an Australian court orders the products off shelves there.
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There has been a "huge increase" in the number of newborn babies who are subject to care proceedings in England, newly-compiled figures show.
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The UK's health service is working with Tinder to persuade more young people to donate organs after death.
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The companies paying to have their staff shut in coffins
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