18/Nov/18
The campaign group Action on Sugar is demanding a ban on freakshakes and all milkshakes with more than 300 calories.
Health News
18/Nov/18
A Briton has died after contracting rabies while on holiday in Morocco, health officials have said.
14/Nov/18
Since becoming, in his words "almost vegan", people don't ask Adrian Chiles out for dinner any more.
14/Nov/18
Women who smoke, have diabetes or high blood pressure increase their risk of a heart attack more than men faced with the same risks, a large study of UK adults has found.
13/Nov/18
Scientists are working on a new antibiotic that has produced promising results in early trials. Medicine will need more of these in coming years if increasing bacterial resistance is not to pose a very serious threat to human health.
12/Nov/18
There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers.
11/Nov/18
Senior doctors are calling for graphic images of injuries to be displayed on firework packaging.
11/Nov/18
Women whose body clocks mean they are "morning people" have a lower risk of developing breast cancer, say UK researchers.
11/Nov/18
Child suicides in Japan are the highest they have been in more than three decades, the country's education ministry says.
11/Nov/18
Surgeons in Australia have successfully separated conjoined twins from Bhutan and say they stand a good chance of a full recovery.
08/Nov/18
Trainee surgeon Saied Froghi played video games like Age of Empires and Halo in his spare time during medical school.
08/Nov/18
Surgeons in Australia have begun a complex operation to separate Bhutanese conjoined twins.
07/Nov/18
People in England are being told to cut back on alcohol, sugar, salt and fat in a bid to boost the nation's healthy life expectancy by five years.
07/Nov/18
The main Paris ring road was slowed to a crawl on Monday morning as hundreds of ambulances, sirens blaring, protested at changes to conditions.
07/Nov/18
A chemical that makes brain tumours glow pink could help surgeons to remove the cancer safely, a trial suggests.
06/Nov/18
Earlier this year, 23-year-old Anick - who was born intersex - was getting ready for the last in a series of operations that would give him a fully-functioning penis. The BBC followed his progress.
06/Nov/18
Moses Musonga never thought men could get breast cancer until he was diagnosed with the disease.
05/Nov/18
Obesity is often portrayed as a Western problem, with under-nutrition found in poorer countries.
05/Nov/18
Jim McCants took green tea capsules in a drive to get healthy in middle age. His doctors now say they left him needing an urgent liver transplant, writes the BBC's Tristan Quinn.
05/Nov/18
Scientists in the US have recruited an unlikely ally in their efforts to develop a new flu treatment.
