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Growing antibiotic resistance threatens to make gonorrhoea more difficult to treat, a Health Protection Agency official warns.

The opportunity to save tens of thousands of HIV patients with a simple, cheap, drug treatment is being missed, say researchers.

Operations refused mirror those in McKinsey cost-cutting report for Department of HealthBasic surgical procedures that could improve the lives of thousands of people are being withheld by NHS trusts desperate to save money, according to some of the country's leading doctors.In a letter in today's Guardian, the presidents of associations representing...

This year's Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign, which aims to raise more than £1m for cancer research over the next six weeksThe singer Kylie Minogue has joined actor Sienna Miller and model Claudia Schiffer in being captured by celebrity photographer Mario Testino wearing nothing but a broad grin and a silk sheet printed with the target logo...

Loss of credibility could endanger lives, says vice chair of Council of Europe's health committeeThe World Health Organisation and other public health bodies have "gambled away" public confidence by overstating the dangers of the flu pandemic, according to a draft report to the Council of Europe.The report, by the Labour MP Paul Flynn, vice chair of...

A leading health expert warns that 25 NHS trusts in England should be investigated over their higher than normal death rates.

Ten-month-old baby boy found dead at home in London despite involvement of at least nine health professionalsA serious case review has been ordered into the death of a seriously malnourished baby boy in London despite the involvement of nine different health professionals with both the child and his mother.The boy was found dead in a flat in St John's...

Thousands more suffer chest infections and ear problems because of exposure to smoke from parents' cigarettes Tens of thousands of children in the UK every year get asthma, chest infections and ear problems because they are exposed to smoke from their parents' cigarettes, doctors reveal today.Secondhand smoke causes 15,400 children between three and...

Three diets - low-carb, low-fat diet and Mediterranean - are effective in helping reverse blocked arteries, say researchers.

Julian Hendy's BBC documentary investigates his father's murder by a stranger with a mental illness. Here Dolly Sen, who is bipolar, respondsContemplating losing someone I love in a random killing makes my heart shrink. I understand the fear people feel. Julian Hendy tries to confront the issue straight on. His film, Why did you kill my dad? BBC2, tonight...