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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.
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A social media campaign to reduce the stigma around mental health in children has been launched by government.
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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.
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Presenter of Radio 4's Woman's Hour Jenni Murray talks about her decision to have weight-loss surgery
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A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa is recovering well after the virus caused her to develop meningitis.
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A strike ballot of junior doctors over a contract dispute will start next month and last two weeks, the British Medical Association announces.
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Public health chiefs advise the health secretary to introduce a sugar tax as part of a range of measures to tackle child obesity.
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Scientists have identified a gene that puts women at higher risk of heart disease, an early study shows.
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The controversy over the chronic form of Lyme disease
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The mixed picture of access to mental health services
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Hospitals in England are being given individual savings targets, after a report identified potential savings of £5bn a year in the NHS.
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Hospitals in England are to be given their own savings targets as part of a drive to save money.
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A million older people in England struggling with everyday tasks such as washing and dressing are being left to fend for themselves, campaigners say.
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Almost one in five young people lives with high levels of anxiety, according to figures on wellbeing published by the Office for National Statistics.
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A round-up of the month's disability news from correspondent Nikki Fox.
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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.
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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.
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A survivor's story of living with the aftermath of Ebola
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A group of MPs have recommended that the government should make mindfulness therapy more available to all.
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The NHS is setting up a stem cell factory to help treat people with diabetes.
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The number of bullying claims by staff at Scotland's highest security psychiatric hospital is twice as high as previously reported, it emerges.
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TV chef Jamie Oliver urges ministers to be "big and bold" by introducing a sugar tax on fizzy drinks.
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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.
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A UN document aimed at getting member states to decriminalise drugs has been withdrawn.
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The first trial of a drug correcting the underlying defect that leads to Huntington's disease has started at University College London.
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The BBC's Michelle Roberts explains what signs to look out for when checking moles for possible skin cancer.
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Neonatal services, which provide care to sick or premature babies, are overstretched and understaffed, according to a report by the charity Bliss.
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Nearly 4,000 patients have waited more than four hours in A&E at Scotland's newest hospital since May, says Scottish Labour.
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Junior doctors stage a protest in London as the health secretary accuses the BMA of misleading its members over planned changes to their contracts.
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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.
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Junior doctors explain why they are angry about planned changes to their contract which they say will lead to a cut in pay.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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The oldest person in Britain, Gladys Hooper from the Isle of Wight, has a hip replacement at the age of 112.
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Campaigners say there are big regional differences in the proportion of women smoking during pregnancy, with rates much higher in poorer areas.
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Britain's oldest person may have entered the record books again - by having a hip operation at 112 years old.
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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.
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Northern Ireland is at the centre of cutting edge pioneering heart interventions which are leading the way across the world.
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More than 6,000 deaths a year could be caused by a continued fall in the effectiveness of antibiotics in the US, a report in The Lancet says.
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Are three-quarters of English hospitals really unsafe?
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The trust which ran Stafford Hospital is to face criminal charges in connection with the deaths of four patients, the BBC learns.
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Almost £110m has been paid out on medical negligence cases and legal fees in Northern Ireland over a three-year period, figures obtained by the BBC reveal.
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Nursing has been declared an occupation that officially has shortages, paving the way for more nurses from outside the EU to work in the NHS.
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Safety in the NHS and care sectors in England is a "significant concern", with particular problems in hospitals, inspectors are warning.
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