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Is Labour trying to make NHS privatisation an election issue?
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A UK military medic has been discharged from hospital in London after being declared free of Ebola. Cpl Anna Cross was the first person in the world to be given the experimental drug MIL 77.
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Newsround reporter Ricky visited the United States to see how a school in Philadelphia is tackling obesity.
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The authorities in Sierra Leone enforce a three-day national lockdown to curb the spread of Ebola, except for short windows to pray.
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A British military worker who was admitted to a hospital in London with the Ebola virus after being flown back from Sierra Leone gives a news conference from a hospital in London.
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Office workers are putting their health at risk by spending too much of the day seated, according to a survey.
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Diarrhoea kills more than half a million children every year - with Pakistan, Nigeria and India having the highest death rates.
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Office workers need to get up and move around more, according to a new campaign.
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A national body to investigate medical accidents in England should be established immediately, MPs say.
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Very fit men in their late 40s are less likely to get lung cancer and colorectal cancer than unfit men, a study in JAMA Oncology suggests.
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Surgeons in Cambridgeshire perform the first heart transplant in Europe using a non-beating heart.
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A report by the health think-tank, the King's Fund, says services in the NHS in England are deteriorating.
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The governor of Indiana has declared a public health emergency and authorised a needle exchange programme, after an HIV outbreak "reached epidemic proportions" in part of the state.
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A new study by the Royal Society for Public Health lists the healthiest and unhealthiest high streets in the UK, putting Shrewsbury at the top and Preston at the bottom.
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A former Premier League footballer who attempted to kill himself says that sporting bodies need to accept responsibility for dealing with mental health issues.
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Preston tops a league table of the UK's "unhealthiest High Streets" according to the Royal Society for Public Health.
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Services in the NHS in England are deteriorating in a way not seen since the early 1990s, according to a leading health think tank.
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The genetic code of "an entire nation" has effectively been deduced, say researchers in Iceland.
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The £259m deficit facing East of England hospitals poses a "genuine risk of damaging quality of care", an NHS trusts' group warns.
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Ebola is more deadly for young children than adults, an analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests.
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Prime Minister David Cameron apologises on behalf of the British government to victims of the contaminated blood scandal.
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The methadone programme in Scotland is "out of control", an expert on drug misuse warns.
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People who need treating with repeated courses of antibiotics may be at increased risk of developing diabetes, researchers have found.
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MPs say it's "inexplicable" the NHS in England spends more on bariatric surgery than well-established measures to prevent obesity.
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Air pollution is linked to an increased risk of stroke, a large global study in the British Medical Journal suggests.
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Two former care workers say the stress of cutting short home visits as they were not given enough travel time between calls was a factor in quitting their jobs.
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A charity calls for couples in Scotland who need help conceiving to have access to three cycles of IVF instead of two.
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Has Ebola caused other killer diseases in Africa to be ignored?
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How would you weigh a lifetime risk of developing cancer against the trauma of surgery?
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Actress Angelina Jolie has her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed as a preventative measure against cancer.
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Newsround's food expert Doctor Radha gives you her quick guide to keeping healthy.
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It's widely assumed that the ideal amount of sleep is eight hours each night - but some experts now say that could be too much, and may actually be unhealthy.
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Staff absences for mental health problems have doubled at hospital trusts across England in the last four years, new figures show.
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Nine British-Sudanese medical students and doctors who have travelled to Syria were motivated by humanitarian concerns, their parents say.
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The delayed global response to the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa "increased the spread" of the virus, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres claims.
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Growing evidence suggests cannabis could cure serious diseases like cancer, but opinions are divided.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to make rice less calorific - boil it with coconut oil and refrigerate before eating.
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The parents of five-year-old Ashya King, who were detained after taking him abroad for treatment for a brain tumour, say their son is now free of cancer.
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Statistician Hans Rosling and the World Health Organization's Margaret Lamunu take part in a debate on fighting Ebola in West Africa.
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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa will be over by August, the head of the United Nations Ebola mission has told the BBC.
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Newsround heard from more than 1,400 children across the UK about what they eat and how much they know about how it affects them
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Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have been working on a robotic glove that could help stroke patients.
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A BBC investigation finds hospital healthcare assistants are working without proper training or supervision, putting patients at risk.
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Half of kids don't eat any greens each day, BBC Newsround finds
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Mosquitoes could bring diseases such as dengue fever and West Nile virus to the UK within the next few decades, disease experts are warning.
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BBC Inside Out investigates illegal sales of roaccutane, the powerful prescription-only drug used to help in the treatment of acne.
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The cancer legacy of Asia's mind-altering nuts
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Delays in introducing a vaccine that protects against a deadly form of meningitis are putting the lives of children at risk, campaigners say.