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Elderly people are reluctant to make complaints about poor health care or do not know how to, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman says.
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Patients needing surgery to reconstruct body parts such as noses and ears could soon be able to have treatment using cartilage which has been grown in a lab.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the end of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, two years after the epidemic began there.
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Public Health England is urging smokers to quit their habit in 2016 to avoid developing serious lung conditions that can be debilitating.
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Smokers are being urged not to dismiss early signs of a debilitating disease as simply a smoker's cough, in a new campaign in England.
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Gene editing to the rise of immunotherapy, 2015 has been a transformative year
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Millions of people in England experience problems with continence, but many are not getting the support they need, health officials warn.
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Robert Spitzer, the influential US psychiatrist who helped declassify homosexuality as an illness, dies aged 83.
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Gonorrhoea could become an untreatable disease, England's top doctor warns, amid concerns some pharmacies are not prescribing for it properly.
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NHS England is urging people to attend A and E units, only if "absolutely necessary" during the rest of the Christmas period.
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Research has found that ballet can have significant physical and emotional benefits for people suffering from Parkinson's disease.
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The public are being urged to think twice before they use A&E over the festive period to help hospitals cope.
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The highs and lows of being a Christmas Day worker
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There's an increasing amount of scientific research that suggests the extra work bilingual brains do when translating has additional benefits - especially in old age.
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More lives could be saved if doctors gave blood pressure drugs to all patients at high risk of heart disease, a study suggests.
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How staff at one centre are trying to help patients enjoy the festivities
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More lives could be saved if doctors considered using blood pressure drugs for all patients at high risk of heart disease - even if their blood pressures are normal, a study suggests.
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The EU's top court says cash-strapped Greece is violating EU law by allowing doctors to work long hours without proper rest.
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A cancer patient from Cornwall has become one of the first in the UK to have testicular tissue frozen to help him have children in later life.
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A court has said the government's case for introducing a minimum unit price for alcohol is contrary to EU law if alternative tax options exist.
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A young boy with an inoperable brain tumour has has testicular tissue frozen so that he has a chance of having his own children when he grows up.
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Care homes are added to an NHS website that lets people compare the performance of health services across England.
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Chancellor George Osborne's promise of a £3.8bn financial boost for the NHS in England next year has "unravelled", the Labour Party says.
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Simple forgetfulness or early dementia? Charity offers advice on recognising the warning signs.
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Weight-loss surgery can cut a person's risk of diabetes and heart attacks as well as keep fat off, a UK study suggests.
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The collapse of an £800m NHS out-sourcing contract is to reviewed by independent experts.
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Some hospital trusts in England are making more than £3m a year from car parking fees, Freedom of Information requests find.
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Hospital visits for alcohol poisoning have doubled in six years, with the highest rate among girls and women aged 15 to 19, a report finds.
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The US Food and Drug Administration will allow gay men to donate blood if they have been celibate for one year.
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Drug-related deaths have soared in New Hampshire where an epidemic of heroin addiction and overdoses has claimed victims from every section of society.
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New Hampshire's court system and emergency services are being overwhelmed by a heroin epidemic - but is locking up addicts the answer to the crisis?
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A 10-year-old boy, who needs urgent surgery for jaw cancer, is with his mother in Poland and could be back in the UK by Christmas, a family court hears.
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More evidence is emerging of failures to investigate unexpected deaths in the NHS.
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Bacteria that resist the most common antibiotic of last resort - colistin - are discovered in the UK.
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A cancer vaccination is to be offered to gay men under the age of 45 on the Welsh NHS, the health minister says.
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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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