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Phone gadget to diagnose disease
A new device that attaches to a mobile phone could be used to diagnose diseases in the developing world.
Guidance aims to spot child abuse
A watchdog issues guidance to help healthcare workers spot early signs of child abuse to avoid another Baby P.
Fresh inquiry at failing hospital
An independent inquiry is to be held into Stafford Hospital where standards of care were severely criticised by a watchdog.
Pregnancy risk?
A top GP answers your questions on swine flu
Teenager's nicotine gum overdose
A 14-year-old West Midlands boy overdoses on nicotine gum, prompting an inquiry by an anti-smoking group.
Concern over Broadmoor 'failings'
Broadmoor high-security hospital is criticised by a health watchdog over its high suicide rate and failure to protect patients.
Pendulum heart cured by spine op
A teenage girl whose heart was pushed to the wrong side of her body by a rare spine problem is cured by surgery.
Stressed parents up asthma risk
Stressed parents may increase the risk that a child will develop asthma, research findings suggest.
Immune therapy Alzheimer's hope
An immune system therapy given to cancer patients could have the added benefit of reducing the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Potent cancer drug hopes raised
A new way of making cancer cells die has been discovered by UK scientists, raising hopes of potent new treatments.
Man refused liver transplant dies
A 22-year-old east London man who began binge-drinking at 13 dies after health chiefs refuse to give him a liver transplant.
Half a brain girl recovers vision
Scientists solve the mystery of how a girl born with half a brain has near perfect vision in one eye.
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