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• If you have cancer, the NHS will pay for care. Got dementia? You’re on your own

  10 Sep 2014: Andrea Needham: My mother’s dementia is arbitrarily classed as a social, not medical, condition, so she gets little help with her care costs. This is unfair

• Going a long way to save the NHS

  9 Sep 2014: Letters: As one who gave up three weeks of my life to march the 300 miles from Jarrow to Westminster on the People’s March for the NHS, I was underwhelmed by the media coverage

• Trans Pride Brighton defines key year for emerging community

  8 Sep 2014: Encompassing Europe’s first ever transgender pride march, Trans Pride Brighton focused on celebrating new-found visibility and preparing for challenges ahead

• Cancer services weakened by coalition's NHS shakeup, says report

  8 Sep 2014:

  Charity says health service feeling squeeze as shrinking budgets leave specialists struggling to cope with rising demand

• Why we shouldn't sneer at Ashya King's parents

  5 Sep 2014: Andrew Holding: It’s easy to dismiss the parents of Ashya King as scientific illiterates in need of a good education, but science engagement that assumes and mocks ignorance is offensive and rarely effective.

• Ashya King has shown how susceptible politicians are to mob hysteria

  4 Sep 2014: Anne Perkins: First thoughts: Politicians are playing a dangerous game when they make big gestures in response to emotionally charged, individual cases such as Ashya’s

• Can we solve Britain’s obesity crisis with gastric surgery? It worked for me

  3 Sep 2014: Emma Burnell: Of course prevention is preferable, but when that fails we need a second chance. Like Jenni Murray, I felt my health was at risk

• 'Ice' gains in popularity despite overall methamphetamine use staying stable

  3 Sep 2014: Victorian report finds crystal meth in Australia has become more pure over the past two years

• Calls for greater disclosure on NHS chiefs' meetings with private US health insurer

  30 Aug 2014: Critics warn of more privatisation as UnitedHealth leads firms seeking £1bn worth of contracts

• Jeremy Hunt tells hospitals they must serve up better and healthier food

  29 Aug 2014: More fruit, less salt and choice of meal to be offered, with failure to make changes considered a breach of contracts

• Cancer Drugs Fund gets £160m more for innovative treatments

  28 Aug 2014:

  Fund that helps patients receive pioneering medicines not routinely funded by the NHS will be extended to 2016

• 10,000 deaths a year from natural causes 'need examining by coroners'

  27 Aug 2014: Pathologists want reform of death certification after plan for external medical examiners delayed

• Will polystyrene cancer concerns prompt brands to change?

  27 Aug 2014: The National Research Council has confirmed that styrene is a potential carcinogen. What’s the reaction?

• Self-harm by mental health patients in NHS has risen by 56%, figures show

  27 Aug 2014: Labour links rise in self-harm and suicide attempts to 'intolerable' pressure from staff and budget cutbacks

• 'Sex drive-in' hailed as success after year-long experiment in Zürich

  26 Aug 2014: Europe's first drive-in brothel for street sex workers has attained objectives, say authorities in Switzerland's largest city

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