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Cancer death rates in the UK have fallen by about 10% in the past 10 years, but actual numbers of cancer deaths are still on the rise.
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An NHS mental health trust is working with US researchers to develop an app that may stop people from killing themselves.
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Rebecca Gibson's husband took his own life in October 2014. She told the BBC what happened.
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Cancer Research UK says the number of people who die of cancer has fallen by 10% over the last 10 years.
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff declares war on mosquitoes responsible for spreading the Zika virus in a recorded TV message to the nation.
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A mother's story of living with microcephaly
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Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the bed bug to help work out how to eliminate the pest, which has been developing resistance to existing insecticide sprays.
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A rare case of the Zika virus being sexually transmitted has been reported in Texas.
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Pressures on GPs in England and Wales have grown so much that they feel they are "letting down" their patients and potentially providing unsafe care, doctors leaders say.
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A boy with a rare sleeping illness caused by a swine flu vaccine wins £120,000 in damages.
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BBC News looks at the amount of sugar found in the kind of food and drink we consume every day.
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How did the world wake up to the threat caused by the Zika virus, that health experts link to birth defects?
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England's chief medical officer says people must take personal responsibility for their drinking and consider cancer risks with each glass.
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Sixty-five to 79 is the happiest age group for adults, while middle-aged people have the lowest levels of well-being, a UK study suggests.
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An urgent global race is under way to establish how and why the Zika virus could be causing a devastating spike in cases of babies being born with underdeveloped brains in South America.
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The amount of time it takes for autism to be diagnosed should be monitored by NHS England and targets set, the National Autistic Society (NAS) says.
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A disease linked to the Zika virus in Latin America poses a global public health emergency requiring a united response, says the World Health Organization.
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Scientists recreate the furrows of a human brain using a simple two-layered gel model, showing that the brain's folds have physical origins.
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Next week's strike by junior doctors in England will go ahead as talks with the government have failed to reach a solution - but union leaders say medics will provide emergency cover.
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An emergency meeting of the World Health Organization is discussing the unprecedented Zika outbreak and whether to declare a global emergency.
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Commentators across Latin America reflect on Zika's grip.
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UK scientists win permission to genetically modify human embryos for the first time.
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The problems care home residents experience getting health care
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Confusion and fear is blighting the pregnancies of thousands of women across Brazil
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Actor Will Smith says he believes players who receive repeated knocks to the head are in danger of developing long-term brain damage.
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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.
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El Salvador works to contain the spread of the virus
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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.
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Doctors in Switzerland say they have separated eight-day-old conjoined sisters - believed to be the youngest ever to be successfully parted.
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Almost 14,000 assaults have been carried out on NHS Scotland staff in the last nine months, new figures reveal.
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An independent review is to be carried out of the way drugs are assessed for use on the NHS in Scotland.
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Researchers in the UK hope that a phone app could help monitor the progress of patients with Parkinson's disease.
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The doctor who delivers India's girls for nothing
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The lengths to which men go to be at their baby's birth
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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.
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A surge in demand in A&E units is causing real problems for hospitals, NHS bosses are warning.
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Rates of breastfeeding in the UK are the lowest in the world, an international study shows.
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The Ugandan forest where the deadly Zika virus was first discovered
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The Zika virus, which is said to be spreading "explosively", was forest discovered in a forest in Uganda.
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The first NHS hospital to be privately run will remain in special measures after the Care Quality Commission said it "requires improvement".
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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.
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Unacceptably short 15-minute home care visits to elderly and disabled people are still plaguing the care system in England, a report suggests.
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Hand transplants are to be carried out on the NHS, with the "highly complex procedure" available from April, health officials say.
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