Tag Archive for: BBC News – Health

‘I’ve requested a full hysterectomy’
Emma Barnett shares her life-long struggle with endometriosis – a disease affecting one in ten women of reproductive age, which causes excruciating, often debilitating, pain.
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‘I’ve requested a full hysterectomy’
Emma Barnett shares her life-long struggle with endometriosis – a disease affecting one in ten women of reproductive age, which causes excruciating, often debilitating, pain.
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Three Ebola vaccines in development amid growing outbreak fears
IAVI, Moderna and the University of Oxford are all working on new vaccines.
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‘Why I’m showing my hernia online’
Amy Bamford turned to social media to seek advice about her hernia.
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Emma Barnett: We can’t ignore this disease that leaves one in 10 women like me in agony
Women tell the BBC presenter how endometriosis affects their lives, as she challenges ministers to take action.
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‘Don’t be too kind’: Stories from the maternity unit where mums were failed
BBC Panorama has seen documents and spoken to former midwives from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Daily pill doubles survival time for pancreatic cancer patients
The drug has been hailed as a breakthrough in managing the deadliest of all the major cancers.
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Checks reveal young women with deadly ‘silent’ heart risk
Sudden cardiac death can happen without warning, and it's not just a problem for sporty young men, say experts.
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Why renaming my health condition could help other women
Rochelle Lewis is among more than 170 million woman globally to be diagnosed with PCOS.
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Millions of breast cancer patients could safely avoid chemotherapy, study suggests
A new DNA test could help screen whether patients require the treatment or not, according to a new international trial.
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