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Health professionals missed "several opportunities" to safeguard a baby boy before he died of a skull fracture, a serious case review finds.
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A ban to stop people from smoking in cars when children are present is passed in the Welsh assembly.
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Plans to introduce a "soft opt-out" system for organ donation in Scotland are published at Holyrood.
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The European Commission introduces legislation aiming to prevent children being poisoned by laundry capsules.
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Local authorities are putting care leavers in bed and breakfast despite new rules intended to restrict this.
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says agencies supplying staff to the NHS have acted "totally irresponsibly".
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The government announces measures to clamp down on "rip-off" staffing agencies used by the NHS to plug gaps in nursing and doctor rotas.
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A doctor should have been "more proactive" after concerns were raised about a four-year-old boy a month before he was killed, a disciplinary panel hears.
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Nurses at a hospital in China reportedly draw lots to decide who should treat a South Korean patient with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers).
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A pair of cancer drugs can shrink tumours in nearly 60% of people with advanced melanoma, a new trial has suggested.
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The NHS in England has met its A&E waiting-time target for the first time since September.
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Women wanting a family should start trying for a baby by the time they turn 30 rather than delay it, a leading fertility doctor has suggested.
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A new BBC TV show, The Truth About Your Teeth, aims to examine the state of people in the UK's teeth and discover if we are storing up problems for the future.
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence publishes its first guidelines on the menopause to doctors.
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Ambulance bosses defend a rise in use of non-NHS crews and private vehicles with costs increasing from £172,000 to over £2m since 2012.
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A pair of cancer drugs can shrink tumours in nearly 60% of people with advanced melanoma, a trial suggests.
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The health service plans to "clamp down on some of the staffing agencies ripping off the NHS", the chief executive of NHS England says.
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The health service plans to "clamp down on some of the staffing agencies ripping off the NHS", the chief executive of NHS England has said.
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A leading dementia charity, Alzheimer's Research UK, is to launch its first national TV campaign to highlight what it says is an urgent need for more investment for research.
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A group of drugs being trialled for cancer could also be used to make nerves regrow and treat spinal cord injuries, a study in mice suggests.
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The potential impact of a new cancer drug invented in Cardiff is described as "remarkable" at the world's biggest gathering of oncologists.
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Marks and Spencer is to become the first UK retailer to add vitamin D to all its packaged bread and bread rolls.
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A charity rounding up dogs in Africa to vaccinate them
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A mass dog vaccination project in a city in Malawi is aiming to eradicate the deadly disease, as Lizzie Crouch reports.
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A lung cancer therapy can more than double life expectancy in some patients, a major trial shows.
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A teenager from Wales has spoken out about the night he ended up in hospital after taking a "legal high".
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A study says Germany's birth rate has slumped to the lowest in the world, prompting fears labour market shortages will damage the economy.
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A woman, whose brother was killed in a car accident, has met the man who was given his face in a pioneering transplant operation.
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China is trying to track at least 193 people who may have come in contact with a man with Mers - the country's first confirmed case of the virus.
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A woman whose brother was killed in a car accident has met the man who was given his face, in a pioneering transplant operation.
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Body dysmorphic disorder sufferer Minnie Wright tells the BBC's John Maguire about the impact the condition has on her life.
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Levels of unconscious racist and sexist bias have been reduced by manipulating the way the brain learns during sleep.
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The ban on smoking in public places - which came into force in 2007 in England - has cut child hospital admissions by some 11,000 a year, research suggests.
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Many supposedly "healthy" fruit snacks aimed at children contain more sugar than a bag of sweets, says campaign group Action on Sugar.
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Concern is growing in South Korea over the spread of the Mers virus after a man defied quarantine to travel to China.
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Nearly three-quarters of fresh shop-bought chickens test positive for food poisoning bug campylobacter in year-long study.
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The number of people taken to hospital after attacks by dogs - and other animals including rats, cats and foxes - has risen by 76% in the past decade, new figures show.
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A smartphone app is as effective at testing eyesight as an optician's clinic, a trial suggests.
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Scientists can transform bacteria into tiny living computers capable of detecting diabetes and cancer, early studies suggest.
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HIV drugs should be given at the moment of diagnosis, according to a major trial that could change the way the disease is treated.
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Scientists say they may be able to explain why some cancers return, many years after they appear to have been cured.
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A small survey in the United States finds 10% of people have skin reactions after getting a tattoo.
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GPs in the UK may be slower to refer patients with cancer than in other countries, a study suggests.
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Breast cancers can change the structure of bone to make it easier to spread there, a study finds.
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Drinking more than five espressos worth of caffeine a day may be damaging to health, according to the European Food Safety Authority.
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There are no differences in the eyesight of dyslexics and non-dyslexics, say researchers
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Half of drivers pulled over by police in some regions are failing drugs tests, according to new figures.
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