BBC Health News
Visit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news.
Updated: 57 min 33 sec ago
Virtual healing
How students use 3D technology to beat cancer
Call to ban junk food from NHS
Hospitals and GP surgeries should follow the lead of schools and ban sugary drinks and snacks, experts say.
Mark Easton
Credit crunch and the human stress factor
Northern Ireland nurse jobs threat
A union threatens industrial action if health service jobs, including 722 nursing posts, are cut over the next three years.
Space food
Astronauts' meals could help children with Crohn's
Fears as women put cult of celebrity over health
Women are more interested in the cult of celebrity than their own health, a charity claims.
Deaths lead to transplants review
Heart transplants at a London hospital are reviewed after four people die within 30 days of their operations.
Repossession 'is mental threat'
House repossession poses the greatest threat to people's mental health, a charity has warned.
Complaints 'do not improve NHS'
The NHS in England is failing to learn from complaints made to it by patients, a parliamentary watchdog says.
Gut 'tasting' could beat poisons
The gut may have receptors that shut down appetite when bitter substances are detected, a study suggests.
UV light fear over 'green' bulbs
Skin could be damaged by prolonged, close-up exposure to low-energy bulbs, health experts have warned.
Hospice has nearly £6m in Iceland
A hospice providing care for terminally ill children has £5.7m invested in one of the troubled Icelandic banks, it says.
Ginseng jabs kill three in China
The Chinese government says three people have died after receiving herbal ginseng injections in Yunnan province.
Images show how thousands are at risk from untreated glaucoma
Thousands of people in England and Wales are at risk from undiagnosed glaucoma, experts have warned.
Bone marrow campaigner dies
A man whose childhood fight against leukaemia led to the creation of a charity for black bone marrow donors has died.
Bone marrow campaigner dies
A man whose childhood fight against leukaemia led to the creation of a charity for black bone marrow donors has died.
Happy talk
Should politicians focus on making us happier, not richer?
GPs 'paid more for working less'
Family doctors are working less, but being paid more after a new contract "failed to live up to expectations", MPs said.
'Vaccinate now' to beat bird flu
A vaccine available right now could help save lives in a future bird flu pandemic, UK scientists claim.
Top award for children's hospital
A new state-of-the-art children's hospital in East Sussex is named Britain's best public building.
Active forum topics
Motley Health - A more relaxed approach to personal health and fitness.
Fitness Articles | UK Fitness Shop | Disclaimer | About Us | Contact Us | Club Directory
Recent comments
2 weeks 2 days ago
11 weeks 1 day ago
11 weeks 4 days ago
11 weeks 4 days ago
20 weeks 4 days ago
24 weeks 2 days ago
25 weeks 1 day ago
25 weeks 3 days ago
25 weeks 3 days ago
25 weeks 3 days ago