Tag Archive for: BBC News – Health

Doctors told woman cancerous cyst was pregnancy
Emma Colledge from Durham is encouraging people to be aware of the symptoms of ovarian cancer.
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Aphantasia: Why I cannot see my children in my mind
Not everyone can picture images in their mind's eye and remember sounds or faces - but why?
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Aphantasia: Why I cannot see my children in my mind
Not everyone can picture images in their mind's eye and remember sounds or faces - but why?
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Study links PMS with perinatal depression
Women with premenstrual disorders are much more likely to have birth-related depression, researchers say.
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What is assisted dying and how could the law change?
A proposed law would let terminally ill people in England and Wales choose to end their life.
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Could assisted dying be coming to Scotland?
MSPs will get the chance to make Scotland the first part of the UK to let people legally end their lives.
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Woman saw 20 doctors before endometriosis diagnosis
Dearbhail Ormond was diagnosed with endometriosis after seeing 20 doctors across 18 years.
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Wrong patient fitted with coil after Caesarean
Other so-called never events include a patient almost having the wrong toe amputated during surgery.
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The families borrowing to pay for care
Like TV presenter Kate Garraway, other families are struggling with the cost of care.
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Girl, 10, left inoperable after surgery axed seven times
The curvature of Eva Tennent's spine is now so severe that mum Jill Lockhart fears she will not survive.
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