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Suspected sepsis in patients must be treated as an emergency in the same way as heart attacks are, England's health watchdog says.

Care services run by councils are facing major cuts this year as rises in council tax have failed to plug the gaps in budgets in England, town hall chiefs are warning.

A police officer has spoken about her experience of post-traumatic stress disorder after dealing with the death of a baby.

Is there any way to get all the benefits of exercise without actually doing any?

A three-year-old from Ghana born with his organs outside his abdomen is to undergo life-saving surgery at an Oxford hospital.

Taking multivitamins during pregnancy is a waste of money because most mothers-to-be do not need them, and they have little benefit, researchers say.

Many people look for quick fixes to get rid of abdominal fat - but what actually works?

Children who suck their thumb or bite their nails are less likely to develop allergies, a study suggests.

Staffing levels within the NHS will have to be cut if the government wants to bring NHS finances in England under control, a think tank says.

Too many people avoid talking about getting old, suggests a survey by a charity for older people.

Community groups tackling female genital mutilation in England and Wales say more local funding is needed to maintain progress against the illegal activity.

Scientists have mutated mice to turn them into "super sniffers", in research aiming to create a new generation of tracker animals.

5 live listener, Tutu, from London, has spoken about how skin bleaching cream nearly killed her sister.

Three major hospitals across England are being ordered to stop providing complex heart care because of concerns over standards.

Veteran BBC correspondent Caroline Wyatt has stepped down from her post as religious affairs correspondent after revealing that she suffers from Multiple Sclerosis.

Nurse shortages in the UK will continue for years to come and could get worse, experts are predicting.

Viral hepatitis is one of the leading causes of death and disability across the globe, killing as many people as Aids or TB, research published in the Lancet suggests.

Men with advanced prostate cancer could be checked for high risk family genes because they are fairly common, affect treatment and can be passed on to their children, say experts.

The Department of Health in England is scrapping its controversial data sharing project - known as Care.data.

The junior doctor contract will be imposed on medics in England, following the profession's rejection of the terms and conditions, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed.

A patient lay dead for up to four-and-a-half hours before being spotted at London's biggest A&E department, inspectors reveal.

Ministers are paving the way to impose a contract on junior doctors in England after the profession rejected the deal that had been agreed with the British Medical Association.

Junior doctors and medical students in England have voted to reject the contract that has been offered to them by the government.

An outbreak of E. coli affecting more than 100 UK people could be linked to eating contaminated mixed salad leaves, public health officials say.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says a "rapid decision" is needed over whether or not to impose contracts on junior doctors.

The latest data for England shows prescriptions for antidepressants and drugs to tackle diabetes have gone up.

Doctors are warning oral antibiotics are being over prescribed for acne despite concerns about antibiotic resistance.

Doctors in India replace a boy's damaged nose with a new one which was grown on his forehead.

One million anonymised eye scans from Moorfields Eye Hospital are to be used to train an artificial intelligence system from Google.

Cases of syphilis and gonorrhoea sexually transmitted infections are continuing to rise in England, latest figures show.

Fungal infections kill more people than malaria or breast cancer, but are not considered a priority warn scientists.

Nearly three out of four couples that begin fertility treatment will eventually become parents, long-term studies suggest.

Almost one in 500 babies in hospitals in England is born dependent on substances their mother took while pregnant, a BBC investigation finds.

The likely impact of Brexit is also being closely examined by senior figures in the NHS, who warn that recruitment could suffer.

Firefighters in Scotland are called out to rescue obese people from their own homes more than 100 times in just over three years.

The NHS in England is introducing a "superior" test for cervical cancer that experts say should spot an extra 600 cancers a year.

Testing the "energy supply" in an embryo could improve the odds of having a baby through IVF, a study suggests.

Confusion about frozen food safety is contributing to millions of tonnes of waste being thrown out by UK households every year, the Food Standards Agency warns.

Mental health charity Gofal says patient outcomes have not improved since the introduction of new legislation.

A growing body of research suggests gardening is good for both physical and mental health.

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service says it had to operate a reduced level of cover on Saturday night due to a shortage of staff.

Terminally-ill children and young people should be given the opportunity to express themselves through art, music and play, say new guidelines which aim to improve end-of-life care.

Skin cancer rates in Scotland have more than doubled among those aged 55 and over in the past 20 years, a leading charity reports.

Fifty people have taken their own lives in Scottish hospitals over the past four years, the BBC learns.

The immune system can be trained to attack itself to reverse a devastating autoimmune disease, in animals.

A crisis-hit computer project for the NHS 24 telephone helpline will not be fully rolled out across Scotland until the end of next year - four years later than originally planned.

A woman who wants to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild has won a Court of Appeal battle.

A new documentary explores how Disney cartoons helped an autistic boy to communicate with his family.

The vote to leave the EU risks making staffing shortages in the NHS worse, health leaders are warning.

Children receiving cardiac treatment at Bristol Children's Hospital were repeatedly given poor care and parents were let down, a review finds.