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Ambulance workers to strike on 10 February

Jess Hodgkinson: Lack of medication contributed to mother's death

Mistley rugby player ends up in hospital due to dog poo

Bethany Shipsey: Parents welcome toxic DNP reclassification to poison

Cannock twin's tumour awareness bid after brother's death

The new tech offering relief from the misery of period pain

Cost of living with food allergies becoming 'unbearable'

Cost of living: One in five eating food beyond use-by date

Experts warn over vaping packaging

Bridlington man repairs tooth with plastic and super glue

Thousands of NHS staff with long Covid risk losing their pay

£1bn boost in hospital beds and ambulance fleet

NHS: More at-home care offered in bid to shorten hospital wait times

US to make it easier for gay men to donate blood

Hundreds of NHS buildings contain asbestos, says TUC

Toxic slimming pill drug DNP to be declared poison

Infected blood scandal: Inquiry hears Belfast Trust apology

Wynter Andrews: NHS trust fined £800k over baby's neglect death

Bharat Biotech: India launches its first nasal Covid vaccine

Shopping purchases may help spot ovarian cancer

Bangor University: Medical school to tackle doctor shortage

University of East Anglia: 80-year-old baby-deaths mystery is solved

Dad's warning after girl, 14, dies from inhaling deodorant

This nurse uses humour to highlight serious challenges

Physiotherapists, 'the quiet NHS miracle workers', walk out

Smear tests: GP waiting times putting women off cervical screening

NHS pressures: Staff leave social care for more money

Paramedics say people are getting ill because their homes are so cold

Dreaded Covid-flu twindemic cost NHS this winter

What is the menopause and what are the signs?

'Menopause leave' trial rejected by ministers

Harlow hospital suspends gas and air over nitrous oxide levels

Ambulance Strikes: Births suspended at Frome Birthing Centre

‘Alexithymia means I can't explain how I’m feeling’

Ambulance staff on strike in England and Wales

Technology can help the NHS, says AstraZeneca boss

Motion capture tech from Avatar films used in disease research

'I've been given a do not resuscitate order but I want to live'

David Nash inquest: Student 'likely to have lived' if seen in-person by GP

Pandemic drinking: Alcohol misuse treatment up 10%

Junior doctor blamed Birmingham hospital for her suicide, family say

Beth Matthews' raw honesty saved lives, say mental health experts

Dentists warn of permanent damage from clear braces ordered online

Actress Vicky McClure hands dementia letter to Downing Street

Kaylea Titford: Dad's neglect led to obese daughter's death - court

Hundreds of jobs to go at Leamington Covid 'mega lab'

Illegal vapes are biggest threat on High Street, say Trading Standards

Investigation into Wolverhampton NHS staff sleeping in patient's bed

Keep cake away from office, suggests food watchdog head

Dementia: Brain check-up tool aims to cut risk at any age

Sudden unexplained death in childhood debated in Parliament

Patients told to expect widespread disruption as nurses strike

Sidney Box's family praise community after 93-year-old's death

Why are NHS staff striking and what should patients do?

'Doctors discuss my daughter like she's nothing'

Antidepressants exit must happen in stages, says medical watchdog

New nurse strike dates as union escalates dispute

Transgender people lose NHS waiting times High Court case

NHS: More Wales strike dates to be announced - nurses' leader

NHS crisis: The medics trying to fix the health service

Ambulance strike cover insufficient, says health secretary

Pancreatic cancer: What losing my wife taught me about life and loss

Nurses' strike: Union says next one will be twice as big

HRT could cut Alzheimer's risk in some women - early study

Feel good lower fat chocolate clue

Birmingham hospital trust declared war on me - surgeon

Consider statins for millions more people in England, NHS told

A&E nurse: Most challenging I've seen in 30 years

Ambulances taking 90 minutes to get to 999 calls

'We don't train to give care in corridors'

Organ transplants: Black people wait up to six months longer, NHS figures show

NHS facing more walkouts as ambulance staff strike

Andrew Bridgen suspended as Tory MP over Covid vaccine comments

Ambulance service being misused, paramedics say

Strike: What will ambulances respond to on Wednesday?

Covid booster: Who can get another jab this winter?

A&E patients waiting more than 12 hours hits record high

Hampshire hospitals' chief urges more patients to see pharmacists

I worry we're killing people - ambulance dispatcher

NHS: Woman, 90, forced to wait three days in A&E chair

Nuclear cancer treatment: Plan to make Wales global leader

Diabetes artificial pancreas tech recommended for thousands on NHS

China Covid: More than 88 million people in Henan infected, official says

21st Century Folk: GP who nearly died from Covid becomes folk song hero

Prof Sir Jonathan Van-Tam joins Parkrun charity

Pandemic care home death: Family to sue over mother's end-of-life consent

Union talks aimed at ending strike action

NHS pay: Nurses leader sees optimism over Sunak talks

Rishi Sunak refuses to say if he uses private GP

'I stopped drinking and never really went back'

Guide dog shortage: The blind people who train their own guide dogs

PM Rishi Sunak to hold crisis meeting over NHS pressures

Brexit: Growing differences between drugs approved for GB and NI, says report

NHS Tracker: How are your local NHS services coping this winter?

Gridlock as record number of ambulances queue at A&E

Junior doctor strike warning for March

NHS: Discharge guidance could see patients die - doctors

UK plan for national mRNA cancer-vaccine advance

Ros Atkins on… Funding and the NHS crisis

Employers could sue unions under planned anti-strike laws

China Covid: Celebrity deaths spark fears over death toll

NHS Wales: Man carries grandad into hospital amid ambulance shortage

Rishi Sunak: Hold me to account if NHS waiting lists don't fall

All The Beauty and the Bloodshed film explores Sackler scandal

Cold medicine shortage blamed on lack of government planning

What is known about new Covid variant XBB.1.5?

Patients in Wales can be sent home without care package

Social care shortage compounds NI hospital pressures

Scarborough Hospital patient sleeps in car due to bed shortage

China Covid: How is it tackling the latest surge in cases?

Damar Hamlin: Why do some young athletes suffer cardiac arrest?

Wearing a mask if ill is sensible advice - minister

A&E patients in Scotland enduring 'inhumane' conditions

NHS: Government urged to take action over pressures

Children told to stay home from school if sick amid flu, Covid and scarlet fever

Some A&Es in complete state of crisis, warn health chiefs