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The campaign to keep NHS funding for a life-prolonging cancer drug
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UK researchers are beginning a million pound study to try to find out why many of us do not follow medical advice or stick with treatment.
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Ebola persists in the semen of male survivors much longer than previously thought, a study shows.
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A boy with learning disabilities and autism who has been kept at a specialist hospital hundreds of miles from his home for three years faces further delays to his release.
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Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who is being treated for complications from Ebola, is now "critically ill" after her condition deteriorates.
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Patient WO describes how he woke up with amnesia after a routine trip to the dentist
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A female contraceptive device used by the NHS poses a serious safety concern, according to a new study.
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Caramel-coated apples can be riddled with listeria - a bacterium that causes diarrhoea and vomiting and, rarely, meningitis - warn scientists.
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People who have suffered mental health problems in England are five times more likely to be admitted to hospital as an emergency, a study shows.
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Women breaking the silence and sharing their pain
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Am I really more likely to get cancer because I'm tall?
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Ministers have set out details of how they aim to save £1bn on agency staff costs to the NHS over the next three years.
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The number of people in Scotland treated with antidepressants rises by 5% in 2014/15, according to official figures.
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The head of Public Health England is being hauled before MPs amid accusations vital evidence is being withheld about the merits of a sugar tax.
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Bowel cancer is four distinct diseases, each with a different prognosis, scientists have discovered.
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The global response to Sierra Leone's Ebola crisis helped avert some 40,000 deaths - but thousands more may have been prevented with a quicker response, say researchers.
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Staff at a mortuary in Mumbai are surprised when a man they were preparing to do a post-mortem examination on wakes up.
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A total of 58 people who had been in close contact with Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, are identified.
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Industrial action by junior doctors in England is still on the cards, after union leaders refused to re-enter talks over a new contract.
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Matron Tosh Dunholm, who laid a wreath at a ceremony to mark the centenary of the death of nurse Edith Cavell, explains why Ms Cavell means so much to her.
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More than a fifth of children referred to mental health services in England have been refused treatment, according to research by the NSPCC charity.
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John McManus reports on a London church offering HIV tests to the black African community.
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Thirty men have been stopped from donating blood at clinics in Northern Ireland because they have had sexual contact with another man, a BBC investigation finds.
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Foetuses still in the womb will be injected with stem cells in order to prevent disease in the first such trial of its type.
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Victoria Derbyshire had a mastectomy to treat her breast cancer last month, she recorded a video diary about her treatment.
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A cancer charity is offering £100m in research money for international scientists to come up with new approaches to beating cancer.
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Today I had a mastectomy. I feel all right, I can't believe it - Victoria Derbyshire
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How flying high helped inventor create breathing machine
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The family of nurse Pauline Cafferkey says doctors "missed a big opportunity" to spot she had fallen ill again.
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Tax on tobacco should be raised to persuade smokers to quit, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health says.
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Researchers at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, say that Dutch cyclists live longer than people who do not use a bike.
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A Brazilian mother's fight to give birth naturally
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More maternity units are shutting their doors to patients as the NHS comes under increasing pressure, the Royal College of Midwives warns.
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More than 90% of England's hospices inspected so far have been rated as "good" or "outstanding", the care watchdog says.
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Nurse Pauline Cafferkey remains in a "serious condition" after being readmitted to the isolation unit where she was previously treated for Ebola.
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BBC News looks at how it is possible for Ebola survivors to contract the virus again.
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A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone last year is in a "serious condition" after being readmitted to an isolation unit in London.
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NHS trusts in England have racked up a £930m deficit in the first three months of the financial year - that is more than the entire overspend last year.
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Actor and model Elizabeth Hurley tells the Victoria Derbyshire programmed why she is campaigning for better awareness of what happens to women after a breast cancer diagnosis.
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A new study warns that a third of all men currently under the age of 20 in China will die prematurely if they do not give up smoking.
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Elephants have enhanced defences against cancer that can prevent tumours forming, say scientists.
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A leading dementia charity says too few services for the elderly take into account the needs of Britain's ageing African Caribbean population.
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A blood test can more than halve the number of people admitted to A&E with a suspected heart attack, say doctors.
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A law proposing the ban on smoking in cars carrying children passes its first hurdle in the Scottish Parliament.
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The first drug to slow the decline in patients with primary-progressive multiple sclerosis has been reported.
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has hinted he may compromise in the junior doctor contract dispute in an attempt to get union leaders back into talks.
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A miniature human kidney has been grown in a petri dish by scientists in Australia.
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