25/Oct/18
Health News
25/Oct/18
More than a quarter of meat-free burgers, sausages and mince tested for a study exceed maximum recommended salt levels, a campaign group has warned.
25/Oct/18
Two unborn babies have had their spines repaired by surgeons - weeks before they were born.
24/Oct/18
Hannah Jenkins speaks English in the morning and German in the afternoon. It's not a routine she chose to adopt - but something her brain requires her to do. It all started with a cycling accident.
24/Oct/18
About three million women across England have not had a smear test for at least three-and-a-half years.
24/Oct/18
Salmonella food poisoning is normally something that people associate with undercooked chicken or eggs.
24/Oct/18
One of the world's biggest tobacco firms, Philip Morris, has been accused of "staggering hypocrisy" over its new ad campaign that urges smokers to quit.
23/Oct/18
Children get six to eight colds a year - twice as many as adults - but there's little evidence on what helps improve symptoms like blocked or runny noses and sneezing.
23/Oct/18
Victims of the NHS contaminated blood scandal have written to the health secretary asking for an immediate increase in support payments, the BBC has learned.
23/Oct/18
Combining a pioneering drug with hormone therapy may extend the survival of some women with advanced breast cancer, a trial suggests.
22/Oct/18
Life on the humanitarian frontline is not as you know it, says former BBC journalist Mark Doyle, who now works in the aid sector and gives his personal view on the job done by aid workers in Zambia.
22/Oct/18
A premature baby whose heart stopped beating for 22 minutes has been called a "miracle" by doctors who treated her, as she celebrates her first birthday.
22/Oct/18
Doctors need to get better at having difficult conversations with dying patients and not just in their final days, according to a report from the Royal College of Physicians.
21/Oct/18
Scientists in London have grown a bio-engineered oesophagus which was successfully implanted into mice.
21/Oct/18
Scientists say they have found a way to make self-lubricating latex condoms that become slippery on contact.
21/Oct/18
The first recreational cannabis to be legally bought in Canada was purchased at midnight on Wednesday (02:30 GMT) on the eastern island of Newfoundland amid queues of hundreds of people.
21/Oct/18
Women whose left index and ring fingers are different lengths are more likely to be lesbians, a study suggests.
18/Oct/18
Lizzie Porter lived with anorexia throughout her teens. Now in her late 20s, she's been discovering that those years of starvation have left a lasting imprint on her body.
17/Oct/18
You may have seen headlines saying that vitamin D supplements do not improve bone health or prevent fractures and falls, even though official advice says everyone should consider taking them - particularly during autumn and winter.
17/Oct/18
When a woman in Taupo, New Zealand, wrote about the love and support of her husband during her night terrors and dark days of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), she didn't expect the huge reaction that followed.
