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What has modern life done to our digestive systems?
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Satish Appleby speaks about the death of her overweight son.
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Hugh Pym on the turbulent times ahead for the NHS
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Midwives in Northern Ireland stage a four-hour strike action on Thursday in a dispute over pay.
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Modifying the DNA of embryos is a "line that should not be crossed" and poses serious safety and ethical issues, a leading figure in US research says.
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A diabetic woman is the first in the world to give birth naturally after using an artificial pancreas while pregnant, experts say.
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New research from Imperial College London suggests the gender gap between men and women's life expectancies is narrowing. But why does the gap exist?
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The number of older carers in England is rising, with signs the responsibility of looking after loved ones is damaging their health, research suggests.
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Men are narrowing the gap on women when it comes to life expectancy in England and Wales, research in the Lancet indicates.
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Does the National Health Action Party have the answers?
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North and South America become the first regions to completely eradicate rubella, or German measles, after no cases in five years
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A memoir written by the wife of an art critic who died of a brain tumour wins a £30,000 prize for new books about medicine, health or illness.
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Three-quarters of countries do not have plans in place to preserve antimicrobial medicines, the World Health Organization says.
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A ban on gay men giving blood in France may be justified but only if there are no alternatives, the EU's top court says.
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MEPs have backed calls for calorie labels to be put on all alcoholic drinks in a vote at the European Parliament.
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Worried parents are putting "extra pressure" on A&E departments, leading doctors and nurses warn.
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Disability rights campaigners who say assisted suicide policy in England and Wales is too "liberal" win permission to bring a legal challenge.
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A mother whose baby died at a Cumbrian hospital says her own care was one of the "most heartbreaking" things she has had to deal with.
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A two-week diet swap experiment hints at just how damaging a junk food diet might be to our guts.
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Cases of skin cancer in Scotland increase by more than 30% in the past decade, according to latest NHS figures.
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More than a third (36%) of drug-death victims in 2013 were parents or parental figures, according to analysis of official figures.
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A man once dubbed the world's fattest speaks of his new "responsibility" as he awaits life-changing weight loss surgery.
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The unit pioneering a different way of dealing with alcoholics
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There may be two distinct child obesity epidemics - one among infants and one among adolescents - research suggests.
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A former nurse is jailed for 18 years for raping and sexually assaulting unconscious women in Oxfordshire.
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An Armagh-based pharmacist has been sentenced to one year in jail for illegally supplying almost 875,000 prescription drugs.
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The first officially licensed kit to allow people to test themselves for HIV at home has gone on sale online in the UK.
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A former midwife at Furness General Hospital in Cumbria admits "making mistakes" which contributed to the deaths of two babies.
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A controversial artificial sweetener is being removed from Diet Pepsi in the US following consumer concerns about its safety.
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Northern Ireland health minister Jim Wells, who caused controversy with remarks linking same-sex relationships to child abuse, says he has resigned to help his wife "during her fight for life".
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The UK's newest hospital, the £842m South Glasgow University Hospital, welcomes its first patients.
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The first HIV self-test kit that allows people to get a fast result at home has gone on sale in England, Scotland and Wales.
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UK's newest hospital, South Glasgow University Hospital, is to receive its first patients on Monday.
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Two-thirds of the world's population have no access to safe and affordable surgery, according to a new study in The Lancet.
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Scientists at the University of Edinburgh call for urgent co-ordinated action to tackle the problem of growing resistance to antibiotics.
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Researchers develop a technique to edit out bits of mitochondrial DNA that could otherwise pass on incurable diseases, a study in mice shows.
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A charity in Peru is tackling high rates of multi-drug resistant TB with the help of a shipping container.
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Labour says leading English hospitals saw income from private patients rise by 58% since 2010 - but the Lib Dems accuse the party of "rank hypocrisy".
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California doctors have removed what they call an embryologic twin living deep inside the brain of a student who had health problems.
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Final clinical trials of a malaria vaccine - the first to reach this stage - suggest it could help protect millions of children against malaria.
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