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A report into palliative care for children says it needs "strategic attention" and previous lessons remain "largely unheard".
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In 2013, Alex Lewis developed a life-threatening condition that left him needing four amputations. He says he is in need of a prosthetic unavailable on the NHS in England.
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Reducing portions sizes in supermarkets, restaurants and at home could help reverse the obesity epidemic, say researchers.
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A report prepared for a Scottish Parliament committee estimates that 10,600 people die in Scotland each year without appropriate end-of-life care.
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The chief executive resigns at a hospital, which runs a deficit of about £1.2m a week, ahead of a Care Quality Commission report.
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A Cambridge hospital stops providing ice for patients' water jugs in a bid to save almost £40,000 per year.
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A hospital in Boston is using artificial intelligence to revolutionise the way care is provided in its emergency department.
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The amazing significance of what a mother-to-be eats
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A campaign to raise awareness of a ban on smoking in cars carrying children begins, in advance of the law coming into force in Wales.
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A Bristol-based orchestra is opening up opportunities for disabled musicians using technology to help them develop their talents.
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Patients are being put at risk at a Kent hospital's A&E unit which is unable to cope during the busiest times, health care inspectors say.
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The government says it hopes to meet a target that 95% of people should be given a cancer diagnosis or the all-clear within 28 days by 2020.
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The amazing science behind fatal snake bites
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There is evidence that exercise in later life life can make your body behave as if it is much younger.
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A major UK rehabilitation centre says more research is needed into the long-term effects of online and smart phone gaming.
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Last winter's season flu jab worked in 34% of cases, according to a final report by Public Health England.
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Dozens of people who had fertility treatment might not be the legal parents of their children as a result of "widespread incompetence" in the sector, a judge says.
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Concerns about the NHS being taken advantage of through fraudulent use of European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) amount to just £700.
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MPs reject plans to allow terminally ill people to be assisted to die in England and Wales, in their first vote on the issue in almost 20 years.
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Rapper Stephen Manderson, better known as Professor Green, battled anxiety and depression from an early age and talks openly about the death of his father.
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MPs are debating whether some terminally ill adults in England and Wales should be allowed to end their lives with medical supervision.
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Negotiations over reforms to consultant contracts, including the end of a right to opt out of weekend work, have begun, the British Medical Association says.
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Eating a lot of fish may help protect against depression, Chinese research suggests.
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Ahead of an MPs' debate on legalising assisted dying, Fergus Walsh speaks to Adrian Small, a terminally ill patient being cared for at a hospice, about living with his disease.
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Humans are biologically wired to be lazy, making sessions at the gym even harder, a study published in Current Biology suggests.
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NHS figures have warned that "stringent" immigration rules are preventing them from getting enough nurses on wards.
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Alzheimer's Research UK say there is no data to link the disease to surgery.
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Children with learning disabilities are more vulnerable to sexual exploitation than other youngsters, according to research published by a group of children's charities.
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Leading NHS figures have issued a stark and unusual warning that hospitals cannot get much-needed foreign nurses to work on wards in time for winter.
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People might be able to contract Alzheimer's during certain medical procedures, just like they can catch the brain disease CJD, say researchers.
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Child mortality has fallen by more than 50% since 1990, a report by the World Health Organization and UN children's organisation Unicef says.
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A small sponge-like implant that can mop up cancer cells as they move through the body is developed by US researchers.
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A new computer model predicts that multi-bed hospital wards increase bacterial hand contamination by 20% compared with single-bed wards.
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As they prepare a major trial of the idea, UK scientists say that starting school at 10:00 could have huge benefits for teenagers because it better matches their “body clock".
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With exactly one year to go until the Paralympics begin in Brazil, how is the city preparing and what is it like for disabled people living there?
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Schools are being offered work experience packages to help pupils' university applications, prompting warnings about barriers to social mobility.
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NHS patients in Kent could soon have surgery at a hospital in Calais under a deal being finalised by health commissioners.
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A brain region called the insular cortex may drive smoking addiction, say scientists who found stroke survivors with damage to this part of the brain more easily kicked the habit.
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Two Denbighshire hospitals which had serious food safety standard failings uncovered by an inspection are given improved ratings.
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Stockpiles of one of the world's most effective anti-venom to treat snakebite are running out, putting tens of thousands of lives at risk, experts warn.
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Schoolchildren should be taught how to wash their hands to tackle the growing threat of drug resistant bacteria, say health officials.
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One of the most effective types of anti-venom for treating snake bites is about to run out, which could lead to many deaths.
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Some local authorities in England are not doing enough to prevent health problems in children under the age of five, a report by the National Children's Bureau suggests.
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There have been 14 claims of bullying by staff at the State Hospital in Carstairs in just five years, BBC Scotland can reveal.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a "vomit machine".
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A leading charity says young children in some parts of England are far more likely to have poorer health than those in other areas.
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A distributor of "highly toxic" diet pills that killed a Shropshire student agrees to stop selling them after being confronted by her mother.
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Baby deaths at an NHS hospital could have been prevented if reforms recommended after the Harold Shipman case were made, a doctor claims.
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