Latest National News
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New Department of Health campaigns funded
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Hospital beds go in NHS efficiency drive, memo reveals
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E.coli cucumber scare: Cases 'likely to increase'
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Will taking an aspirin a day save YOUR life?
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Human brain's 'bat sight' found
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Skin cells 'turned into neurons' by US scientists
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Measles outbreak prompts plea to vaccinate children
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Commercial weight loss services 'more effective than GPs'
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Regulator raises elderly care concerns
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Health bill may have to be withdrawn – doctors
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Help for GPs to diagnose mental health problems
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10p polypill 'halves heart disease and stroke risk'
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Running backwards could be a more effective way to get fit
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Winter flu death toll topped 600
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Smallpox decision deferred again
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Extra calcium doses are 'no benefit' for bones
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Lung patients warned about new ash cloud from Iceland
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Alzheimer's can begin in young people
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GPs reveal shocking cost of patients failing to attend appointments
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New cancer drugs fund
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Cooked tomatoes help battle cholesterol
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Bacteria 'linked' to Parkinson's disease
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Red meat 'raises bowel cancer risk'
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Couch potato lifestyles of the internet generation 'creating weak children'
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Britain's bill for elderly care 'to cost a fifth of GDP' by 2050
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Paralysed man can stand and move his legs again
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Hospitals get mixed sex-ward fines
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New gel could solve back pain, scientists say
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Hospitals buy 1,751 types of medical tube
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NHS debate 'losing contact with reality'
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Hospitals using 'inexperienced' locums as consultants
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Body reprogrammed to accept donor organ as its own
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Sticking plaster that can repair damaged hearts using cells
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Two new Legionnaires’ disease cases confirmed
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Flagship MRSA screening programme under review
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Nick Clegg to oppose NHS competition regulator
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Elderly falls 'badly managed by NHS'
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Life-long obesity risk of ‘eating for two’ in pregnancy: Mothers won’t lose extra weight, experts warn
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AIDS prevention 'breakthrough'
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Public health boss claims 500 cases sun bed related
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Bid to boost blood cancer survival
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Cameron stands firm on NHS changes to 'avoid crisis'
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Scalpel, Android, iPhone: the NHS starts dispensing apps
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Surgery to end monthly pain threatening the fertility of 1.5m women
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Ozone jab in the spine that can relieve your back pain
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Cameron set to stand firm on need for NHS changes
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Private sector 'still facing bit-part role in NHS'
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Malaria blocks 'super-infection'
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New £435 blood 'death test will prove a person's longevity'
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Faulty medical implants leave NHS with costly bill
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Hope for chronic pain sufferers as new drug becomes available
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Prostate cancers advance more in obese men
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Sickle cell anaemia treatment 'effective for children'
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IVF policy change leads to fewer multiple pregnancies
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Twitter 'vital' link to patients, say doctors in Japan
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NHS axe falls on treatments
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New arthritis drug given green light
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New guidance for ovarian cancer tests
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City professor pioneers new research into heart condition
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Gene clue to how superbugs attack
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Monkey HIV vaccine 'effective', say researchers
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NHS patients record project faces cull
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Selenium 'does not prevent cancer'
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NHS 'urgently needs decisions to avoid disarray'
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Debate over NHS reforms
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How eHealth can lead to a healthier Europe
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Call for fewer heart transplant units
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Inquiry into Legionnaires cases in Glasgow
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The happiness gene that determines how cheery we are
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Prescribe statins to ALL over-55s, declares professor
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NHS reforms will open the health service up to more competition
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Drug offers hope for treating muscular dystrophy
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FluPhone app 'helps track spread of infectious diseases'
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Pills better for treating asthma than inhalers
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Scientists turn 'bad fat' into 'good fat'
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Three new breast cancer genes found and discovery could bring drugs lifesaver in five years
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Arthritis sufferers warned about herbal treatments
