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Medical groups are asking George Osborne to reverse planned cuts to vital health services in England.

Can you sniff out disease?

Alzheimer's disease can be detected decades before onset, using a virtual reality test, a study suggests.

Rapid diagnostic tests are urgently needed to help doctors know which patients require antibiotics, a review says.

Legislation to ban new psychoactive substances in the UK is being rushed amid a lack of clarity over whether it could actually work, MPs warn.

The Home Office's annual statistics show a 6% drop in animal experiments in the UK - but the office has changed the way it collects these figures.

A baby born three months early was kept warm by doctors with the help of a supermarket sandwich bag, her mother reveals.

Inside the first trial to prevent the disease

A sugar tax and fewer buy-one-get-one-free deals are part of Public Health England's "key actions" to cut sugar consumption.

A paedophile doctor who abused young cancer patients was able to go undetected after clues to his offending were missed, an investigation finds.

About 11,000 people in the UK will be involved in the world's largest clinical trial examining whether or not aspirin can prevent cancers returning.

A social media campaign to reduce the stigma around mental health in children has been launched by government.

The health secretary has misrepresented a key study used to back the case for more seven-day NHS care, the editor of the British Medical Journal says.

Presenter of Radio 4's Woman's Hour Jenni Murray talks about her decision to have weight-loss surgery

A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa is recovering well after the virus caused her to develop meningitis.

A strike ballot of junior doctors over a contract dispute will start next month and last two weeks, the British Medical Association announces.

Public health chiefs advise the health secretary to introduce a sugar tax as part of a range of measures to tackle child obesity.

Scientists have identified a gene that puts women at higher risk of heart disease, an early study shows.

The controversy over the chronic form of Lyme disease

The mixed picture of access to mental health services

Hospitals in England are being given individual savings targets, after a report identified potential savings of £5bn a year in the NHS.

Hospitals in England are to be given their own savings targets as part of a drive to save money.

A million older people in England struggling with everyday tasks such as washing and dressing are being left to fend for themselves, campaigners say.

Almost one in five young people lives with high levels of anxiety, according to figures on wellbeing published by the Office for National Statistics.

A round-up of the month's disability news from correspondent Nikki Fox.

David Cameron is set to preside over the largest sustained fall in NHS spending as a share of GDP since 1951, an analysis by the King's Fund says.

Mohammad Sudais who came to Scotland as a two-month-old baby after being badly burned in a gas explosion in Pakistan, is celebrating his second birthday.

A survivor's story of living with the aftermath of Ebola

A group of MPs have recommended that the government should make mindfulness therapy more available to all.

The number of bullying claims by staff at Scotland's highest security psychiatric hospital is twice as high as previously reported, it emerges.

TV chef Jamie Oliver urges ministers to be "big and bold" by introducing a sugar tax on fizzy drinks.

A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa is now in a "serious but stable" condition, according to the hospital where she is being treated.

A UN document aimed at getting member states to decriminalise drugs has been withdrawn.

The BBC's Michelle Roberts explains what signs to look out for when checking moles for possible skin cancer.

Neonatal services, which provide care to sick or premature babies, are overstretched and understaffed, according to a report by the charity Bliss.

Nearly 4,000 patients have waited more than four hours in A&E at Scotland's newest hospital since May, says Scottish Labour.

Would you tell Apple when you've had sex?

Junior doctors stage a protest in London as the health secretary accuses the BMA of misleading its members over planned changes to their contracts.

The health secretary accuses the BMA of misleading junior doctors over planned changes to their contracts in England as they start a protest in London.

Junior doctors explain why they are angry about planned changes to their contract which they say will lead to a cut in pay.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed two new cases of Ebola in Guinea, ending a two-week spell in which no new infections had been reported.

The former conservative health minister Dr Dan Poulter has given his support to junior doctors by appearing in a video produced by them on the eve of a planned protest.

Model Charli Howard has posted an open letter on Facebook claiming she was put under pressure to lose weight because she was deemed 'too big'.

Can community health services help the NHS cope in winter?

The oldest person in Britain, Gladys Hooper from the Isle of Wight, has a hip replacement at the age of 112.

Campaigners say there are big regional differences in the proportion of women smoking during pregnancy, with rates much higher in poorer areas.

Britain's oldest person may have entered the record books again - by having a hip operation at 112 years old.

A teenage boy who performed CPR on his friend when he collapsed during a rugby game says "you don't think, you act", about the incident.