Latest National News
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Bird flu fear as mutant strain hits China and Vietnam
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Bad sleep ups blood pressure risk
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'Devastating divide' in access to new cancer drugs
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NHS pays spin doctors more than cancer experts
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NHS spending on homeopathy prescriptions falls to £122,000
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Exclusive: Yorkshire executives avoid axe in health shake-up
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Electric jab in your arm that fights skin cancer
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Scientists create tanning implant
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Power to the patients, even the reluctant ones
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Bid to fight child obesity
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Global governments 'must get tough on obesity'
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Investigations into the Nurofen Plus mix-up begin
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Taking certain antidepressants could cut the risk of both bowel and brain cancer
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Cancer scoring to predict how long patients have left to live
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Holidaymakers warned after six struck by malaria in Greece
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Future heart health 'shaped by diet'
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Diabetes drugs 'driving rise in NHS drugs bill'
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Brain Scan Detects Alzheimer's Disease Risk In Healthy Individuals
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Blood pressure guidelines revised in England and Wales
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MRSA superbug death total 'continues to fall'
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Scientists hail Parkinson's brain cells 'breakthrough'
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Chris Grayling publishes list of ten most bizarre health and safety bans
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First new skin cancer treatment since 1970s goes on sale
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Call to measure duration of obesity
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Bowel cancer awareness 'stubbornly low'
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Child aged four in Wales' A&Es for drink and drugs
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Commuting is 'more stressful for women than men'
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Vitamin D mum test 'could protect babies from rickets'
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Three cancers share genetic link
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Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers'
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PFI projects 'poor value for money', say MPs
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Death knell for mixed-sex wards: After years of broken promises, a 90% drop in hospital cases
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County NHS officials say no to cannabis-based MS treatment
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Research shows thousands of patients could be taking statins needlessly
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Stopping Ovarian Cancer
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Trainee doctor changeover 'impacts on patient safety'
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Woman gets £500,000 compensation after spending two years 'imprisoned' in hospital when medics miss infection
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NHS to offer stress-buster course
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How listening to patients can improve health services
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Alcohol companies accused of exploiting Facebook, Twitter and YouTube by 'targeting young people with drink campaigns'
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Virtual touch helps keyhole surgeons to 'feel' tumours
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'Suicide bomber' bacteria destroys superbug
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Coroner calls for review of anaesthetic procedures after woman's death
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BMA 'extremely concerned' on central flu vaccine purchase plan
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Essex care worker arrested after 'insulin death'
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NHS watchdog reports on Western Isles Hospital
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15-minute daily exercise is 'bare minimum for health'
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Cancer discovery offers hope of tackling spread of disease
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Tom Condliff told NHS will pay for gastric band surgery
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Glasgow University study to tackle heart bypass failure
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Coffee suncream could slow skin cancer
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Fat 'disrupts sugar sensors causing type 2 diabetes'
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'Late' asthma research unearths potential new treatment
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Delays in hospital treatment in England grow
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Clydebank hospital uses new technique on heart patients
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City firm’s global date
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GPs say extended commissioning will negatively impact patient care
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Unison: Why we worry about social enterprises in the NHS
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Personal care budgets need further testing
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Tattoo-like electronic patch to monitor health
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Public health handover work to begin in 2011
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Health wins as spending shrinks
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Alzheimer's drug tests in six years, Lancaster researcher says
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Genetic clues to what triggers MS
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Four-fold rise in heart and cancer scan delays with NHS patients waiting more than six weeks
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Cells that 'kill' leukaemia in three weeks have been developed by scientists
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NHS faces growing financial pressure, says auditor
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NHS hospitals needed £200m in bailouts and loans
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Scientists make schizophrenia breakthrough
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More aggressive chemo better for older lung cancer patients
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Could the Atkins diet help you keep diabetes at bay?
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The hidden risks of top herbal remedies that pharmacists don't tell us about
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Women who suffer sleep apnoea more likely to get dementia later in life
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Call for more maternity doctors
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Number of NHS patients waiting over six weeks for tests quadruples
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Back pain and disc health 'linked' to lack of nutrients
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Exercise should be 'standard part of cancer care'
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Texts could improve malaria care
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Memory is 'team effort' by several regions of the brain
