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A leading charity says young children in some parts of England are far more likely to have poorer health than those in other areas.

A distributor of "highly toxic" diet pills that killed a Shropshire student agrees to stop selling them after being confronted by her mother.

Baby deaths at an NHS hospital could have been prevented if reforms recommended after the Harold Shipman case were made, a doctor claims.

An NHS trust was told there were no mental health beds available across England for its patients, its medical director says.

Lee Curry received a four-week benefits sanction for not turning up to an appointment that the job centre failed to tell him about.

Scientists say they have developed a way of testing how well, or badly, your body is ageing.

Cancer patients suffer in Greece's failing health system

New research supports claims that patients admitted to hospitals at weekends are at greater risk of dying compared with those admitted during the week.

Will a Florida project be a success?

The City of Miami Beach has installed 50 sun cream dispensers around the city, giving residents and tourists access to free sun cream.

The case for improving hospital care at weekends is "simply unassailable", medical chiefs say, as new figures on death rates are published.

Day in the life of a consultant on call in Colchester at the weekend.

The goal of seven-day GP opening is unachievable in this Parliament and risks destabilising services, the Royal College of GPs says.

Using electricity to stimulate parts of the brain may ease the symptoms of motion sickness, scientists say.

Dr Jim O'Donnell is part of a pilot scheme to provide GP services seven days a week.

Dr Simon Sherwood has worked as a GP for 20 years, but says it has never been this tough.

The Cancer Drugs Fund in England has cut 23 treatments from the list of medicines it funds.

A leading health think tank has challenged the government's rationale for a full seven-day service in the NHS in England.

A Sierra Leone village of nearly 1,000 people is put under quarantine after a dead woman's body tested positive for Ebola.

Palliative care experts say more investment is needed to improve the care of dying patients.

Aspirin may be able to boost the effectiveness of cutting-edge cancer medicines that bolster the immune system, scientists say.

Weight loss surgery cures half of patients with type-2 diabetes, for at least five years, a study suggests.

Can you get a bald spot from a bang on the head?

Plans to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol in Scotland face further delay, following an initial ruling by Europe's highest court.

Pregnant women should ensure they have the whooping cough vaccine to protect their babies, Public Health England is urging.

Smoking breaks could be banned for thousands of council employees under new proposals, it emerges.

A man says he fears having to tell friends and family he is HIV positive after he was among 780 patients whose details were leaked by a health clinic.

The model who's bringing a rare condition into the open

A sexual health centre in London mistakenly leaked the details of nearly 800 patients who have attended HIV clinics, bosses admit.

NHS staff will be offered exercise classes in a bid to keep them fit and in work, NHS England's chief executive has announced.

Senior doctors have told the BBC that GP surgeries in rural areas are in crisis as they say it's harder to find family doctors in remote areas, as they struggle to recruit staff.

People with learning difficulties in the UK are being inappropriately over-medicated, patient records reveal.

Thousands of pounds from NHS "personal health budgets" are spent on "treats" such as holidays and clothes, a Freedom of Information request has found.

A man who nearly died from drinking hand gel containing alcohol, says he was part of a group which systematically raided London hospitals for a drink.

A woman who died on Saturday in northern Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, officials have confirmed.

The venom of a wasp native to Brazil could be used as a weapon to fight cancer, scientists believe.

The national sperm bank hopes a recruitment drive will boost the number of donors after it emerges only nine men are registered a year after it opened.

People who sleep six hours a night or less are more likely to catch a cold when exposed to the virus, a novel human experiment finds.

Meningitis B vaccination for all newborn babies starts to take place across the UK - the first scheme of its kind in the world.

A section of forest in northern England is being used to study how the immune system in wild field voles is affected by the environment.

Thousands of pounds of NHS personal health budgets are being spent on "treats", including holidays, clothes and pedalo hire, an investigation finds.

Daniel Wells, who has contracted Meningitis twice, says the speed with which the disease affects you is the "most frightening part".

A new method of applying insecticide to nets has proved 100% effective against certain resistant mosquitoes, an international study reports.

What is it like to be the world's hairiest family?

Clinical trials begin of a new class of drug that researchers say could potentially transform the treatment of potentially fatal diseases.

More male care workers are needed to look after older people according to Care England, the organisation representing independent providers.

More male care workers are needed to look after older people, the Chief Executive of Care England says.

The first British healthcare worker who caught and survived Ebola is working as an NHS nurse in the hospital that helped save his life.