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10 Sep 2014: Specialists say treatment can be useful for attacking tumours that can be precisely targeted, but not in medulloblastomas like Ashya King's -
10 Sep 2014:
A study suggests that African American women in the US have a different picture of what unhealthy weight looks like than medical experts, prompting suggestions that pictures should be more widely used with health messages to counter the new normality of excess weight
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10 Sep 2014:
The new Apple Watch comes with health apps and has an NHS partner – but will the right patients benefit? By Sarah Boseley and Alex Hern
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10 Sep 2014:
At least 150 and possible several thousand patients a year are conscious while they are undergoing operations, study finds
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9 Sep 2014:
A new study finds that we are not addicted to sugar or to chocolate in the way we can be addicted to drugs, but we can get hooked on eating itself
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9 Sep 2014:
Chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies says mental illness cost £100bn last year yet 75% of people received no treatment
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5 Sep 2014:
Judge rules five-year-old can go to Prague, but UK doctors claim there is no advantage to proton-beam form of radiotherapy
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5 Sep 2014:
Critics of WHO bid to curb vaping believe the devices are powerful aid to help smokers quit tobacco
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5 Sep 2014:
More could be done to bring down death rates, which vary significantly between areas, according to doctors
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4 Sep 2014:
World Health Organisation director general Margaret Chan calls for global response and says stopping epidemic will cost $600m
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4 Sep 2014:
Some of worst-affected countries have suicide rates 40 times higher than those where fewest people kill themselves
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2 Sep 2014:
Head of Médecins sans Frontières says the world is 'losing the battle' as cases and deaths continue to surge
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1 Sep 2014: Five year-old boy being treated in Malaga hospital under police guard while parents in 'preventive custody' in Spanish jail
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1 Sep 2014: Rules on patient confidentiality prevent doctors explaining their actions, but there has clearly been a rare loss of trust
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31 Aug 2014:
Families of children with cancer live with anguish of allowing life-saving treatment that could also damage youngsters
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