What is assisted dying and how could the law change?
MPs backed a proposal to let terminally ill people in England and Wales choose to end their life.
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Kidney patients offered ‘risky’ technique
Clinicians at a hospital in Portsmouth have championed a dialysis practice that is not recommended.
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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.
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What is the infected blood scandal?
Thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the worst treatment disaster in NHS history.
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Need an op? The hospitals with the worst waits
BBC News analysis reveals wide variation across England in waits for planned hospital treatment.
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Need an op? The hospitals with the worst waits
BBC News analysis reveals wide variation across England in waits for planned hospital treatment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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