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The UK provides the best care in the world for people nearing the end of their lives, according to a new study.
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A donor from Germany who was a perfect match for a girl whose life was saved by a bone marrow transplant has come to Warwickshire to meet her.
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A look at the work that won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine
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A former Conservative health minister has criticised the Government's handling of controversial reforms to junior doctors' contracts.
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The "devastating harm" caused by having too much sugar is the focus of Brighton and Hove's first city-wide campaign.
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The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says it is "disgusted" by Afghan government justifications for Saturday's attack on its hospital in Kunduz.
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The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been split two ways for groundbreaking work on parasitic diseases.
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The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to two teams for their groundbreaking work on parasitic diseases.
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Holyrood's health committee questions whether meeting performance targets in the NHS is the best use of public money.
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An incurable lung disease is claiming lives because of a lack of funding and research, according to a charity.
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GPs in England are to be offered a voluntary contract to provide seven-day-a-week cover for patients, David Cameron announces.
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Senior doctors are calling for a rethink over the use of a chemotherapy drug to treat prostate cancer.
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UK regulators reassure women the permanent birth control implant Essure is safe despite concerns in the US.
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Drinking dirty water is a reality for many around the world. One company has teamed up with NGOs to trial a unique device that uses salt and a car battery try tackle this
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Young children given asthma medication before the age of two may not grow to their full height in later life, a preliminary report suggests.
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The patients subjected to intimate examinations - without consent
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The Children's Commissioner for England is concerned that young people with mental health issues are turning to the web for advice.
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Activists are warning of a rise in suicides among young people in Iraq.
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Newnsight followed three junior doctors over the course of a week - here are their diaries.
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A Stirling primary school has pioneered a scheme to ensure all of its pupils walk or run a mile every day.
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Some doctors in England are being offered thousands of pounds in bonuses to cut the number of patients being sent to hospital, an investigation finds.
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Some doctors are being offered thousands of pounds in bonuses to cut the number of patients being sent to hospital, an investigation has found.
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A Swedish study of five million people appears to support the theory that height and cancer risk are linked.
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"Heads would roll" in England if hospital waiting list figures were on the same scale as those currently seen in Northern Ireland, a leading health expert claims.
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Ruth Walters says she started pulling her hair out when she was 14 and her parents were divorcing.
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A law banning smoking in vehicles where children are present comes into force in England and Wales, but police say they will be taking a non-confrontational approach.
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Operating theatres are a "hostile environment for women", one of the country's leading female surgeons has told the BBC.
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Being exposed to "good bacteria" early in life could prevent children developing asthma, say US scientists.
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Rising numbers of anxious students need counselling and support for mental health problems
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Lack of an effective national ambulance service in Kenya has seen private firms and organisations take the lead in providing medical emergency services across the country.
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A woman who may benefit from womb transplantation in the UK says carrying her own child would be "an absolute gift".
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Should we know more about the state of NHS finances?
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Everyone who has HIV should be offered antiretroviral drugs as soon as possible after diagnosis, the World Health Organisation says.
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Doctors have been granted approval to carry out the UK's first 10 womb transplants, following the success of the procedure in Sweden.
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British aid workers who risked their lives to save victims of the Ebola virus have been honoured for their efforts.
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People with the most common form of multiple sclerosis should be offered drug treatment earlier, a charity says.
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The BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh explains what causes age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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Smoking will be banned in all prisons in Wales and four in south-west England from next year, ahead of a wider roll-out, the government says.
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A woman who worked at an NHS non-emergency call centre says it is "dangerously understaffed" with 75% of calls going unanswered.
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The Welsh Rugby team might want to ditch cryotherapy sessions ahead of their match against Fiji on Thursday, say medical experts who have evaluated this deep freeze treatment for tired muscles.
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Bryan Naylor, who has wet macular degeneration, gives his reaction to the news scientists may be close to finding a cure for blindness.
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Researchers have found evidence that thousands of critical medical machines, such as MRI scanners, are available to access online.
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Surgeons in London use human embryonic stem cells to try to cure blindness in a patient.
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