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Boris Johnson tells MPs the need to self-isolate after a positive test will end from Thursday.
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The PM will tell MPs later about plans to scrap the remaining legal Covid restrictions in England.
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This is a precautionary dose ahead of a wider autumn booster programme, say UK experts.
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Hospitals in England will no longer promote natural births over C-sections, as part of a plan to improve care.
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Juliet Coffe has a severe lung condition, and feels unsafe at the prospect of Covid restrictions being scrapped.
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A charity has been hosting a number of workshops to help those who have lost their sense of smell.
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Other lifestyle factors have more of an impact on heart attacks and strokes, a large UK study suggests.
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A charity has been hosting a number of workshops to help those who have lost their sense of smell.
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Self-isolation rules are expected to dropped in England this week - ending all legal restrictions.
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Jimi Olaghere feels like he's been reborn after a pioneering new treatment for sickle cell disease.
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Staff at high street pharmacies in Scotland are increasingly being abused by aggressive customers.
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The health service will instead fund its own gambling services from 1 April, says mental health boss.
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After tackling depression, beatboxer Shlomo is now back on stage helping children's mental health.
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The research contradicts popular assumptions that mental speed declines after the age of 20.
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Africa was declared free of wild polio in 2020 after a major continent-wide vaccination campaign.
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Senior NHS staff say they disagree with the prime minister's planned changes to English Covid rules.
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The rare neurological condition synaesthesia is helping singer/songwriter Tamera make music.
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How children are becoming the forgotten victims of pandemic after disruption to care and support.
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The retinal-implant manufacturer has shifted its focus, leaving users with little or no support.
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Our health correspondents answer some of your questions.
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Danielle Ray's father died aged 63 and more than 14,000 UK men are thought to be undiagnosed.
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There are around five million people in the UK who still haven't had a Covid jab.
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But the rollout will be "non-urgent", with a focus on parental choice, the government says.
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Services at two hospitals are affected as staff who were in contact with Lassa fever patients isolate.
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Strict Covid protocols - which are still in place - have seen routine dental care dramatically reduced.
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Some wines contain more sugar than a doughnut, but carry no nutritional information on their labels.
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Wales becomes the first UK nation to announce it will vaccinate the younger age group.
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As well as stopping some infections, jabs "cut the risk" of long Covid in those who still catch the virus.
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Death certificates suggest fewer people are dying with, or from, Covid.
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Matt and Liam started a podcast about miscarriage after their own personal experiences of loss.
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Stephanie Coles was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer after she found a lump on her stomach.
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Busting myths and explaining the facts around vaccines.
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At 475,000 people, Northern Ireland's waiting lists are the worst in the UK.
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A man was given more than three times the intended dose of a drug after instructions were misheard.
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Face masks could be made into sheets as part of plans to reuse PPE, health minister says.
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There is "overwhelming" evidence of poor health outcomes for some ethnic minority groups, warn experts.
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Safe-sex education should include how to make it enjoyable for maximum benefit, say researchers.
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Thirty years ago Michelle Crawford from Londonderry underwent an operation that would change her life.
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Vicki teaches her son, five, to use FaceTime in case his grandmother has a heart attack.
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A man, 47, is arrested on suspicion of murdering a patient who died after a fight in Rotherham.
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Police have launched a major review of the doctor's work at hospitals in Dudley and Stoke-on-Trent.
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A mother describes the struggle of trying to get a tongue-tie diagnosis for her newborn.
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Thousands more lives could be saved by paying attention to early symptoms of heart attacks, doctors say.
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The Ebola-like virus is endemic in parts of West Africa and can be spread by rats.
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Self-isolation rules could become guidance rather than a legal requirement next month.
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The family of Hugh McMahon say the battery burned a hole the size of a 5p coin in his heart.
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The French virologist jointly won the Nobel Prize but later drew criticism for unscientific claims.
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Campaign group Toothless in England say the government is ignoring "acute needs" of the public.
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A doctor says it is "inevitable" Covid patients will come into contact with others amid shortages.
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Brigene has been fighting to bring her brother home from Muckamore Abbey Hospital for decades.
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