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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.

A boy with a rare sleeping illness caused by a swine flu vaccine wins £120,000 in damages.

Is it time to change our approach to cancer?

BBC News looks at the amount of sugar found in the kind of food and drink we consume every day.

Skyping with my grandmother on her deathbed

How did the world wake up to the threat caused by the Zika virus, that health experts link to birth defects?

England's chief medical officer says people must take personal responsibility for their drinking and consider cancer risks with each glass.

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.

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.

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.

They said I would die but now I play the violin

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.

Scientists recreate the furrows of a human brain using a simple two-layered gel model, showing that the brain's folds have physical origins.

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.

An emergency meeting of the World Health Organization is discussing the unprecedented Zika outbreak and whether to declare a global emergency.

Commentators across Latin America reflect on Zika's grip.

UK scientists win permission to genetically modify human embryos for the first time.

The problems care home residents experience getting health care

Confusion and fear is blighting the pregnancies of thousands of women across Brazil

Actor Will Smith says he believes players who receive repeated knocks to the head are in danger of developing long-term brain damage.

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.

El Salvador works to contain the spread of the virus

The country that donates eyes to the rest of the world

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.

Doctors in Switzerland say they have separated eight-day-old conjoined sisters - believed to be the youngest ever to be successfully parted.

Almost 14,000 assaults have been carried out on NHS Scotland staff in the last nine months, new figures reveal.

An independent review is to be carried out of the way drugs are assessed for use on the NHS in Scotland.

Researchers in the UK hope that a phone app could help monitor the progress of patients with Parkinson's disease.

The doctor who delivers India's girls for nothing

The lengths to which men go to be at their baby's birth

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.

The steps Brazil is taking to counter Zika

A surge in demand in A&E units is causing real problems for hospitals, NHS bosses are warning.

Rates of breastfeeding in the UK are the lowest in the world, an international study shows.

Why the mosquito that spreads virus is flourishing

The Ugandan forest where the deadly Zika virus was first discovered

The Zika virus, which is said to be spreading "explosively", was forest discovered in a forest in Uganda.

The first NHS hospital to be privately run will remain in special measures after the Care Quality Commission said it "requires improvement".

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.

Unacceptably short 15-minute home care visits to elderly and disabled people are still plaguing the care system in England, a report suggests.

Hand transplants are to be carried out on the NHS, with the "highly complex procedure" available from April, health officials say.

A group of doctors and health experts is urging the House of Lords to support a bill to lower the drink-driving limit across the whole of the UK.

Researchers are using new genetic technology to try to contain the spread of the Zika virus by mosquitoes.

Three to four million people could be infected with Zika in the Americas this year, the World Health Organization says.

Strains of HIV are becoming resistant to an antiretroviral drug commonly used to prevent and fight the virus, research suggests.

A doctor and hospital trust are cleared of the manslaughter of a woman who died following a Caesarean birth after a landmark trial collapsed.

The World Health Organization holds a special session on the Zika virus

A British woman is told by doctors she is the first person in the world to have a pancreas transplant because of a severe needle phobia.

NHS patients in Wales wait longer for treatment and diagnosis than patients in England for most of the main categories, BBC Wales can reveal.

Researchers in the US urge the World Health Organisation to take urgent action over the zika virus, linked to shrunken brains in unborn children