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VIDEO: 'Just one more drink' alcohol warning, Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:18:10 GMT
A new television advertising campaign in England is warning against the temptations of "just one more" drink.
VIDEO: MPs 'should admit mental health issues', Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:23:43 GMT
Alastair Campbell reckons MPs are more likely to suffer from mental health issues than the one-in-four figure for the general population.
VIDEO: Newborns 'should receive vitamin D', Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:23:15 GMT
Doctors are calling for newborn babies to be given vitamin D, to protect them from bone disease and other illnesses.
VIDEO: GP leaders turn back on NHS plans, Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:55:40 GMT
The Royal College of GPs calls for the health bill to be scrapped, heaping more pressure on the government's controversial reforms in England.
VIDEO: MPs and the stigma of mental illness, Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:57:41 GMT
Comedian Ruby Wax said depression was like "being in a coma, but awake" as the panel debated how politicians should discuss their issues.
VIDEO: Brains may be 'wired' for addiction, Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:40:57 GMT
Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists at the University of Cambridge.
VIDEO: Private company takes over hospital, Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:24:17 GMT
Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon has become the first NHS hospital in Britain to be managed by a private company.
VIDEO: Science converts thoughts into speech, Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:34:50 GMT
Scientists have unveiled a new technique for decoding human brainwaves and then converting them into speech.
VIDEO: Mystery illness at US high school, Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:19:58 GMT
High school students in the small community of Leroy, New York State, have been coming down with strange tics and verbal outbursts, with no obvious cause.
VIDEO: Online test to gauge asthma risk, Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:07:51 GMT
A new online test is being launched that will help people with asthma gauge to what extent they are at risk from a serious attack.
VIDEO: Singing teacher's speech problems, Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:29:36 GMT
A singing teacher - who once auditioned for the Spice Girls, is trying to raise awareness of the rare neurological condition that's paralysed her voice box.
VIDEO: Fake vodka health fears, Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:12:25 GMT
Sarah Sturdey goes on the trail of the people producing illegal alcohol and finds out the sometimes dire consequences for those who drink it.
VIDEO: Day to day work of a social worker, Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:09:48 GMT
A new BBC programme aims to explain the challenges social workers face in their daily working lives.
VIDEO: NHS changes have created 'unholy mess', Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:32:35 GMT
Changes to the NHS in England have created an "unholy mess", the editors of three leading journals have said.
VIDEO: Protest over disability cuts, Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:07:48 GMT
Activists stage a "daring and disruptive act of civil disobedience" in opposition to the Government's controversial welfare reforms
VIDEO: Contaminated drugs given to 40,000, Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:08:00 GMT
More than 100 people have died in Lahore after taking contaminated heart medicine, Pakistan officials have said.
AUDIO: Carers 'missing out on support', Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:58:29 GMT
A woman who cares for her husband and son who both have cancer told Radio 5 live that she does not receive enough support.
VIDEO: '£6,000 to replace my burst PIP implants', Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:42:30 GMT
Debbie Lewis had her PIP breast implants removed after they ruptured and leaked
VIDEO: Soldier's mind-control bionic op, Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:07:38 GMT
A Tyneside soldier travels to Austria for the first stage of a process to fit him with a bionic arm he will be able to control with his mind.
VIDEO: Rise in Pakistan heart drug deaths, Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:01:58 GMT
More than 100 people have now died in Lahore after taking contaminated heart medicine, Pakistan officials have said.
AUDIO: Could lack of vitamin D be behind Sids cases?, Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:19:16 GMT
The Today programme's Andrew Hosken reports concerns have been raised that a deficiency in vitamin D could have a connection to sudden infant death syndrome.
VIDEO: Injured soldiers to climb Everest, Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:57:11 GMT
A group of injured soldiers are training to climb Mount Everest for the charity Walking With The Wounded
VIDEO: Elderly 'affected by social care cut', Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:32:29 GMT
Spending on social care for the elderly in England is falling this year, despite the assurances of ministers, an analysis by Age UK suggests.
VIDEO: Dorrell: NHS faces huge challenge, Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:14:02 GMT
"Progress is too slow" and the NHS faces a "huge challenge" in making the savings needed to safeguard its future, the chairman of the health select committee has warned.
VIDEO: Cameron defends NHS reforms, Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:35:00 GMT
The prime minister has defended the government's NHS reforms saying they had the support of thousands of GPs across the country.
VIDEO: Heart attack deaths halved in ten years, Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:46:18 GMT
The death rate from heart attacks in England has halved in the last decade, says an Oxford University study.
VIDEO: 'NHS reforms are creating chaos', Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:08:20 GMT
The shadow health secretary has accused the government of creating chaos by pushing on with its Health and Social Care Bill.
VIDEO: PIP implant dilemma for UK women, Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:39:07 GMT
More than 40,000 British women were given breast implants made by PIP, the French company at the centre of an international scare.
VIDEO: Cancer carers missing vital support, Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:05:25 GMT
More than a million people in the UK who care for someone with cancer are potentially missing out on vital support and benefits, according to the charity Macmillan Cancer Support.
VIDEO: Stem cell hope for eye treatment, Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:10:09 GMT
The first results of a trial involving human embryonic stem cells have been published in a medical journal.
VIDEO: PIP implant company owner arrested, Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:37:56 GMT
The owner of a French breast implant company at the centre of a safety scare has been arrested in southern France.
VIDEO: Mum thanks life-saving paramedic, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:46:17 GMT
A mother from Northamptonshire has met a paramedic to thank him for saving her week-old baby daughter's life.
VIDEO: Pressure building over NHS plans, Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:07:53 GMT
Pressure is building on ministers over NHS reforms in England, following a critical report by MPs.
VIDEO: New suite helps bereaved parents, Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:08:32 GMT
A bereavement suite has opened at Milton Keynes Hospital to support parents who have stillborn babies.
VIDEO: Minister denies health report criticism, Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:55:47 GMT
Health minister Simon Burns disagreed with the findings of the Commons Health Select Committee chaired by a former Conservative health secretary.
VIDEO: How are breast implants made?, Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:27:48 GMT
Newsbeat gets a tour around the UK factory where silicone breast implants are made.
VIDEO: Unions move to opposition over NHS bill, Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:45:51 GMT
Nurses and midwives have announced they will fight the government's plans for a major shake up of the NHS in England.
AUDIO: Lansley: NHS reform opposition 'purely political', Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:43:05 GMT
Chris Ham, chief executive of the King's Fund, analyses the path of the Health Reform Bill and Health Secretary Andrew Lansley responds to criticism from the medical community.
VIDEO: UK 'will do more to fight disease', Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:40:35 GMT
The British Government has announced it is to significantly increase funding to fight disease in the most deprived parts of the world.
VIDEO: Call for cosmetic surgery ads ban, Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:03:32 GMT
Cosmetic surgery advertising should be banned and annual checks carried out on surgeons, the industry has said.
VIDEO: Baby unit infection source sought, Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:34:20 GMT
Staff at the Royal Hospital neo-natal unit in Belfast are trying to find the source of the bacterial infection linked to the deaths of three babies.
VIDEO: 3D face scan to help future surgery, Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:45:50 GMT
Visitors to London's Science Museum are being invited to have their faces scanned in 3D.
VIDEO: Cancer charity 'wrong on incomes', Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:54:20 GMT
The work and pensions secretary said Macmillan Cancer Support was wrong to claim 7,000 cancer patients would see their incomes fall by £94 a week from April.
VIDEO: Call to delay disabled benefit changes, Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:33:46 GMT
Sixteen major disability charities are calling for the the government to delay planned changes to benefits for disabled people.
VIDEO: NHS to fund boy's cancer treatment, Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:42:34 GMT
The NHS in Northamptonshire has agreed to pay for a seven-year-old boy's private treatment in Germany for a rare childhood cancer.
VIDEO: Weight-loss surgery man needs skin op, Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:27:39 GMT
A Suffolk man who has lost a life-changing 40 stone - more than half his former body weight - now needs an operation to remove excess skin.
VIDEO: Ballet helps Parkinson's patients, Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:34:30 GMT
Scientists from London's Roehampton University are studying the effects of ballet on people with Parkinson's Disease.
AUDIO: Manager compensated in race row, Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:56:38 GMT
NHS manager Elliot Browne told Radio 5 live that he did not think at first that he was dismissed because of the colour of his skin.
VIDEO: Heart-stopping moment for medics, Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:03:45 GMT
A team of medical workers in Mexico were caught on camera as they dropped a donor heart being rushed to hospital for an urgent transplant. Despite the mishap the heart transplant was a success.
VIDEO: Mail robot first for Forth Valley, Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:51:34 GMT
The Forth Valley Hospital is using a new robot to sort the mail, the first of its kind to be used in any hospital in Europe.
VIDEO: How sports stars deal with depression, Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:28:33 GMT
Cricketer Andrew Flintoff has been exploring the issue of depression amongst professional athletes for a BBC documentary.
VIDEO: Ambulance delay baby severely ill, Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:05:06 GMT
The mother of a baby fighting for his life after a difficult birth, has questioned why it took almost two hours for an ambulance to arrive.
VIDEO: Harley Medical Group on implants, Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:06:29 GMT
The chairman of the Harley Medical Group says replacing PIP implants would put the company out of business.
VIDEO: NHS will replace implants, Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:11:28 GMT
The Welsh government says it will pay to remove faulty breast implants which were fitted privately. Until now, only patients who had the French made PIP implants fitted by the health service were guaranteed NHS treatment - a position that hasn't changed in England. It's been estimated that up to 2,000 women in Wales have had the implants.
AUDIO: Medical device regulation 'risk', Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:59:31 GMT
Dr Richard Horton of medical journal, Lancet, outlines their concerns over the regulation of medical devices by private providers.
VIDEO: Is life expectancy in our genes?, Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:11:17 GMT
Scientists at the University of Glasgow say they have found a key genetic indicator of how long an individual will live.
AUDIO: 'Alternate day' aspirin recommended, Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:48:03 GMT
New research suggests that taking an aspirin every day, which is commonly thought to reduce the risk of heart attacks, could be doing more harm than good. Professor Kausik Ray explains.
VIDEO: Foetal alcohol risks reassessed, Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:50:31 GMT
It is estimated 6,000 babies are born every year in England with foetal alcohol syndrome because their mothers drank alcohol when pregnant.
VIDEO: Campaigners voice vitamin D fears, Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:13:05 GMT
Health campaigners have voiced concerns that many people are not getting enough vitamin D, which could lead to an increase in related diseases.
