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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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UK regulators grant a licence for a drug called pertuzumab, or Perjeta, that fights early but aggressive breast cancer.
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David Cameron dismisses speculation free school meals for all infant children could be at risk of cuts.
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt agrees to meet junior doctors' leaders after the decision to ballot medics on industrial action over a new contract.
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Sections of DNA that control when women go through the menopause have been identified by scientists.
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On Pingelap, a tenth of the population is totally colour-blind.
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The mystery of why some people appear to have healthy lungs despite a lifetime of smoking has been explained by scientists.
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Unlicensed blood product which claims to treat cancer and autism still being sold
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Cuts to free school meals for infant pupils in England could harm children's health, say experts in a letter to a newspaper.
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How a dog helped discover the 'kiss of life' technique
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Designer and entrepreneur Vidhi Mehta has developed a biology kit that helps children become ''citizen scientists'', hunting new antibiotics.
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Junior doctors in England are to be balloted on industrial action over government plans to introduce a new contract from August 2016.
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