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Suicide claims thousands of lives every year - but figures show that men are around four times more likely to kill themselves than women.

Why do so many fortysomething men kill themselves?

Why are certain images always used to depict mental health issues?

What happens if you don't look after dental implants

Author and anthropologist Sheila Kitzinger - who wrote more than 25 books on childbirth - has died at her Oxfordshire home at the age of 86.

The Australian government announces its intention to stop welfare payments to parents who refuse to vaccinate their children.

Immediate action must be taken by the next government to increase the number of NHS nurses, a report warns.

The Brazilian medic using Shakespeare to help his patients

Many Ebola survivors are likely to face further health issues - including eye and joint problems, the WHO warns.

Parts of the UK could reach the highest level of air pollution on Friday, prompting health warnings.

Being overweight cuts the risk of dementia, according to the largest and most precise investigation into the relationship.

Doctor and director Vitor Pordeus believes his unique drama therapy can cure his patients mental health problems.

Doctors and nurses who treated cancer patient Ashya King criticise his parents while speaking out for the first time in a BBC documentary.

Being overweight cuts the risk of dementia, while underweight people face the highest risk, according to a study involving nearly two million Britons.

Plucking hairs in a precise pattern can make more pop up in their place in mice, a US study shows, but it is uncertain if this applies to humans.

The burden of disease has changed remarkably over the past century, challenging how the health service is run. But what will the coming decades bring?

A study has found that the shorter you are, the greater your risk of heart problems.

GP Zoe Norris speaks to BBC Breakfast about a BMA survey which suggests that longer appointments and better funding are needed to improve services.

Switching between two antibiotics in a well-designed sequence could prove to be a "surprising" new way to combat drug resistance, research suggests.

Longer appointments and better funding are needed to improve services, a survey of GPs suggests.

Scientists have predicted the odds of women developing breast cancer by looking for tiny DNA errors in 77 genes.

Better funding and more time with patients are needed to improve services, according to a survey of GPs by the British Medical Association.

Short people are at greater risk of developing heart problems, a study at the University of Leicester finds.

The government has "undermined and weakened" the NHS in England, a letter signed by 140 doctors says.

The General Medical Council is to review an investigation into the second most powerful person at NHS England, Dame Barbara Hakin.

Widow Margaret Perry explains how lonely she became after her husband died, and how she managed to tackle it.

The UK's care system for dying patients with terminal illnesses needs a major overhaul, says a new report.

More than 100,000 people a year who are dying from terminal illness are not getting the palliative care they would benefit from, says a damning new report.

Living with dementia after one, four and seven years

A future Conservative government would give the NHS in England "whatever" it needs to fill a predicted funding gap, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says.

The BBC's Christian Fraser reports on the main parties' policies on the NHS - and the degree of trust shown by the public in politicians, when it comes to health provision.

Have GP services got worse?

The NHS in England has missed its four-hour A&E waiting time target for the past three months with performance dropping to its lowest level for a decade, figures show.

An increasing number of children are being referred to gender identity services

Why strenuous runs may not be so bad for you after all

Restrictions on the display of cigarettes and tobacco products in small shops in Wales come into force.

From 6 April, all nationals from outside of Europe coming to live in the UK for longer than six months will be required to pay a surcharge.

A boom in cheap package holidays in the 1960s is partly behind the "worrying rise" in skin cancers in pensioners, Cancer Research UK suggests.

About 80,000 people could die if there were a "widespread outbreak" of an antibiotic-resistant blood infection, according to a government document.

A boom in cheap package holidays in the 1960s is partly behind the "worrying rise" in skin cancers in pensioners, Cancer Research UK suggests.

A majority of people in Britain support tax rises as a way of funding the NHS ahead of cuts to other public services, a poll suggests.

Why one artist has built the asylum of his dreams, a space he calls "a safe place to go mad".

Sex as a recreational activity, is in decline, according to Sex By Numbers, a new book on sexual behaviour written by David Spiegelhalter.

Five ideas on how to transform the NHS

Tailor-made cancer vaccines that target unique genetic errors in a patient's tumour have been developed in the US.

Children's heart surgery in the UK, often the source of controversy, has improved significantly, a report has concluded.

Labour leader Ed Miliband says the National Health Service needs to be ''rescued'' from the Conservatives, while David Cameron insists there are more people being treated.

Eating food contaminated with bugs leads to more than 580 million cases of illness a year, a World Health Organization report warns.