05/Dec/18
When Colin McIntyre was told by the NHS he would have to wait nine months for a new hip he decided to look at other options.
Health News
05/Dec/18
Experts advising the government have said there is not enough scientific evidence to warrant a ban on the sale of energy drinks to children.
04/Dec/18
04/Dec/18
A woman convicted of illegally whitening people's teeth has told BBC Scotland she did not know what she was doing was against the law.
04/Dec/18
Harvey Davis comes to open the gate to his dusty, wind swept compound in the remote part of northern Namibia.
03/Dec/18
Deborah Binner's husband, Simon, was 57 when he chose to have an assisted death in Switzerland after 10 months of living with motor neurone disease. She told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire that while she respected his decision, his death felt like abandonment.
03/Dec/18
A study suggests that one in six veterans who left the British military after serving in a combat role in Iraq or Afghanistan would probably qualify for a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In some, the symptoms only appear years later.
03/Dec/18
There has been a worldwide resurgence of measles, with many countries experiencing "severe and protracted" outbreaks last year, a report warns.
03/Dec/18
The UN's global health body says the Ebola outbreak in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the second-biggest ever recorded.
03/Dec/18
Bollywood actress Sonali Bendre has returned to India after undergoing treatment for an aggressive form of cancer in New York.
03/Dec/18
Babies who are born with a wide variety of bacteria in their nose are more likely to recover quickly from their first cold, research suggests.
02/Dec/18
Scotty Hearron says he was a "broke college student" the first time he got paid for donating some of his blood plasma.
02/Dec/18
Margot Noel has a condition called misophonia, which literally means "hatred of sound". It can be so disturbing that she has to wear headphones or ear plugs to protect herself.
02/Dec/18
China has halted the work of the scientist who claims to have created the world's first genetically edited babies, and says it will investigate.
02/Dec/18
It has been called the scourge of urban life. Poor lifestyle and obesity have led to a surge in type 2 diabetes, a condition that occurs when the body cannot produce enough insulin to regulate blood sugar levels.
30/Nov/18
A woman lost a third of her bodyweight after surgery to remove a 26kg ovarian cyst - the weight of seven newborn babies.
29/Nov/18
HIV diagnoses are continuing to fall in the UK as it meets UN targets on diagnosis, treatment and transmission for the first time, according to a report from Public Health England.
28/Nov/18
A new therapy for children with curved spines was approved for general use after tests only on pigs and dead bodies, an investigation has revealed.
28/Nov/18
Medical devices that are unsafe and have not been adequately tested are ending up inside patients' bodies, an investigation has revealed.
28/Nov/18
An investigation has raised safety concerns about the most commonly used type of silicone breast implant in the UK.
