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Hospital tube block sparks probe - 03 Apr 2006 15:14:50 GMT Police are investigating two deaths at a hospital in Salford after a blockage was found on an anaesthetic machine.
'More genes' needed to make life - 03 Apr 2006 15:01:57 GMT Scientists trying to make artificial life forms in the lab may have a tougher job ahead than they had expected.
Fears that jobs could go to India - 03 Apr 2006 14:20:05 GMT Hospital staff in Cornwall fear that some secretarial jobs could be axed and the work to India.
£3m for brain damage boy - 03 Apr 2006 13:41:42 GMT A six-year-old Manchester boy who was brain-damaged at birth is awarded £3m in High Court damages.
Dentist jailed after record fraud - 03 Apr 2006 13:04:03 GMT A dentist who defrauded the NHS of more than £600,000 is jailed.
Six nurses fall ill with measles - 03 Apr 2006 12:47:53 GMT Hundreds of staff are vaccinated at a hospital in north-west London after six nurses fall ill with measles.
Hospital shake-up out to public - 03 Apr 2006 12:25:51 GMT Campaigners ready to fight to save future of hospitals under threat in north Wales health shake-up.
SA bars Aids group from UN talks - 03 Apr 2006 11:35:49 GMT South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign says the health minister excluded it from UN talks on HIV/Aids.
First measles death for 14 years - 03 Apr 2006 11:33:32 GMT A 13-year-old boy dies from measles, the UK's first fatality from the disease for more than a decade.
Hundreds face axe at NHS direct - 03 Apr 2006 11:04:50 GMT Hundreds of jobs could go at NHS Direct as part of a restructuring of the organisation.
Cleaners 'make bug strong' - 03 Apr 2006 10:14:12 GMT A study finds bleach is the only way to kill of a dangerous hospital bug - other cleaners may actually help it to thrive.
Sleepwalk killer out of hospital - 03 Apr 2006 09:49:07 GMT A man sectioned after killing his father while sleepwalking is discharged from hospital.
Doctors urge NHS funding rethink - 03 Apr 2006 08:18:51 GMT A group of 900 doctors call on the main political parties to reconsider how the NHS is funded.
Mutant gene's kidney cancer clue - 02 Apr 2006 23:04:59 GMT Scientists have discovered how a faulty gene can increase the risk of kidney tumours.
High meat diet 'can stress baby' - 02 Apr 2006 23:04:40 GMT Experts warn against high protein, low carbohydrate diets in pregnancy amid concern over stressed babies.
Bird flu plan for 'mass graves' - 02 Apr 2006 04:21:31 GMT Mass burials are being considered in preparations for a possible bird flu pandemic, a newspaper suggests.
Hospital 'failed cancer patients' - 01 Apr 2006 17:02:35 GMT Bradford NHS Trust failed to give breast cancer sufferers vital treatment in 1980s and 1990s, the BBC learns.
Pregnancy timeline - 23 Dec 2004 13:42:57 GMT A week by week guide to pregnancy taking in how the baby develops, changes to the mother and key scan dates.
Cancer: The facts - 30 Jan 2004 11:57:24 GMT The disease tends to affect older people - but can strike at any time.