Entries by BBC News

Kidney patients offered ‘risky’ technique

Clinicians at a hospital in Portsmouth have championed a dialysis practice that is not recommended.

Trying to stay alive in a town of despair

How a team of former addicts are trying to stop others from becoming "deaths of despair" in Blackpool.

What is the infected blood scandal?

Thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the worst treatment disaster in NHS history.

Need an op? The hospitals with the worst waits

BBC News analysis reveals wide variation across England in waits for planned hospital treatment.

Need an op? The hospitals with the worst waits

BBC News analysis reveals wide variation across England in waits for planned hospital treatment.

Different measure to BMI may spot childhood obesity better, study says

Researchers who have studied thousands of children suggest a new measure could be more accurate.

Vicky Pattison: Why I’d donate my frozen eggs

The reality TV star tells the BBC why she plans to donate any eggs she doesn't use.

Reality TV star Vicky Pattison: Why I’d donate my frozen eggs

The reality TV star tells the BBC why she plans to donate any eggs she doesn't use.

‘Man in the iron lung’ Paul Alexander dies at 78

Paul Alexander worked as a lawyer and lived for decades in a metal cylinder which breathed for him.

‘Man in the iron lung’ Paul Alexander dies at 78

Paul Alexander worked as a lawyer and lived for decades in a metal cylinder which breathed for him.