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Bowel cancer is four distinct diseases, each with a different prognosis, scientists have discovered.

The global response to Sierra Leone's Ebola crisis helped avert some 40,000 deaths - but thousands more may have been prevented with a quicker response, say researchers.

Staff at a mortuary in Mumbai are surprised when a man they were preparing to do a post-mortem examination on wakes up.

A total of 58 people who had been in close contact with Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, are identified.

Industrial action by junior doctors in England is still on the cards, after union leaders refused to re-enter talks over a new contract.

Matron Tosh Dunholm, who laid a wreath at a ceremony to mark the centenary of the death of nurse Edith Cavell, explains why Ms Cavell means so much to her.

More than a fifth of children referred to mental health services in England have been refused treatment, according to research by the NSPCC charity.

John McManus reports on a London church offering HIV tests to the black African community.

Thirty men have been stopped from donating blood at clinics in Northern Ireland because they have had sexual contact with another man, a BBC investigation finds.

Foetuses still in the womb will be injected with stem cells in order to prevent disease in the first such trial of its type.

Victoria Derbyshire had a mastectomy to treat her breast cancer last month, she recorded a video diary about her treatment.

Today I had a mastectomy. I feel all right, I can't believe it - Victoria Derbyshire

How flying high helped inventor create breathing machine

The family of nurse Pauline Cafferkey says doctors "missed a big opportunity" to spot she had fallen ill again.

Tax on tobacco should be raised to persuade smokers to quit, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health says.

Researchers at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, say that Dutch cyclists live longer than people who do not use a bike.

A Brazilian mother's fight to give birth naturally

More maternity units are shutting their doors to patients as the NHS comes under increasing pressure, the Royal College of Midwives warns.

More than 90% of England's hospices inspected so far have been rated as "good" or "outstanding", the care watchdog says.

Nurse Pauline Cafferkey remains in a "serious condition" after being readmitted to the isolation unit where she was previously treated for Ebola.

BBC News looks at how it is possible for Ebola survivors to contract the virus again.

A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone last year is in a "serious condition" after being readmitted to an isolation unit in London.

Are pregnant women being let down?

NHS trusts in England have racked up a £930m deficit in the first three months of the financial year - that is more than the entire overspend last year.

Actor and model Elizabeth Hurley tells the Victoria Derbyshire programmed why she is campaigning for better awareness of what happens to women after a breast cancer diagnosis.

A new study warns that a third of all men currently under the age of 20 in China will die prematurely if they do not give up smoking.

Elephants have enhanced defences against cancer that can prevent tumours forming, say scientists.

A leading dementia charity says too few services for the elderly take into account the needs of Britain's ageing African Caribbean population.

A blood test can more than halve the number of people admitted to A&E with a suspected heart attack, say doctors.

A law proposing the ban on smoking in cars carrying children passes its first hurdle in the Scottish Parliament.

The first drug to slow the decline in patients with primary-progressive multiple sclerosis has been reported.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has hinted he may compromise in the junior doctor contract dispute in an attempt to get union leaders back into talks.

A miniature human kidney has been grown in a petri dish by scientists in Australia.

A blood test can more than halve the number of people admitted to hospital with a suspected heart attack, say doctors.

The three West African countries at the heart of the Ebola epidemic record their first week with no new cases since the outbreak began in March 2014.

A 10-year-old boy who has jaw cancer and needs urgent surgery has vanished, a High Court judge says.

A new report advises pregnant women to avoid alcohol completely. Two mothers who drank while expecting give their reaction.

A toddler is expected to make a full recovery after a near-fatal car accident caused his head to detach from his spine.

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for discoveries in DNA repair.

How hospices bring care and comfort to the dying

Ovarian transplants are a safe and effective way for women who have had cancer to have their own children, a study suggests.

A new drug for advanced skin cancer should be made available on the NHS in England, a health body has recommended.

Two-thirds of older and disabled people who turn to their local councils in England for help with care are turned away, figures show.

New organ donation rules which presume consent are finalised by AMs.

Inquests will be held into the deaths of a number of patients at care homes at the centre of an alleged abuse scandal in south Wales.

A re-think of immigration rules which protect ballet dancers but not vital foreign nurses need re-thinking, the head of the NHS in England says.

How safe is the air that we breathe?