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An operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London by British and Italian doctors has become a 'world first'.
Women with swine flu are 13 times more likely to suffer critical illness if they are pregnant, new research has revealed.
Pregnant women who smoke should be offered £10 a week as a reward for quitting, a thinktank has suggested today.
A quarter of the NHS trusts in England are failing to meet standards in relation to hospital infections and hygiene standards, a report has found.
Cancer reports in newspapers and magazines are "overly optimistic" and do not paint a real picture of death and treatment failure, a report has found.
GPs are spending too much time treating people for minor ailments such as coughs and colds, healthcare professionals have said today.
The number of lonely children in Britain has increased by 60 per cent in the last five years, a report from the NSPCC today suggested.
The risk of developing asthma doubles among civilians who have been subjected to war trauma, a report has found today.
Thousands of cancer patients are still being denied treatment despite new guidelines aimed at improving access to medication, a campaign group has declared.
A year after the death of Jade Goody, a do-it-yourself smear testing kit has received a mixed response from experts on cervical cancer.
A new campaign is aiming to cut down the time it takes Alzheimer's sufferers to make their first doctor's appointment to highlight the importance of early detection.
Contraceptive pill users have been told it does not increase their long-term risk of death, but there is still an unexplained "higher rate of violent or accidental deaths".
A study out today has claimed doctors are failing to lower heart patients' cholesterol levels adequately, with women particularly at risk.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has said it has concerns patients details are being uploaded too quickly onto a NHS national IT database.
A new study has found that men have a longer "sexually active life expectancy" than women, with the difference widening in old age.
A third of the survivors of the London bombings have needed treatment from psychologists for post-traumatic stress disorder.
A study has found that women who drink a moderate amount of alcohol appear to gain less weight than non-drinkers.
An investigation has been launched after a junior doctor gave a baby boy ten times the amount of TB vaccine he should have been given.
Hundreds of thousands of pregnant women in developing countries are at the same risk today as women in the UK were 100 years ago of dying in childbirth.
Soham murderer Ian Huntley is reported to have had is throat slashed by a fellow inmate in prison.
Ministers have today criticised two former cabinet members who appear to have accepted cash for influencing government policy.
The union Unite and British Airways (BA) are both claiming they are winning the battle over a cabin crew walkout.