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BBC Health News: 04-24-2006
Health workers heckle Patricia Hewitt as she tries to calm concerns over NHS deficits and job cuts.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to issue new guidelines on measuring the growth rates of babies.
The number of staff working in the NHS rose last year - but that included a hike in bureaucrat numbers.
A Roman Catholic cardinal says the Vatican will publish a statement on the use of condoms by people with Aids.
Community hospitals are still under threat despite government assurances that more money would be pumped into local services, nurses say.
A survey of Parkinson's specialists suggests many patients get worse when they go in to hospital.
Doctors are failing to involve patients in decisions about their own healthcare, a report finds.
An isles doctor, thought to be the highest paid UK GP, is using his salary to pay for locums, officials say.
Scientists hope they can create a new vaccine for a tropical disease which kills about 60,000 people a year.
A new cream or gel that could combat HIV is being studied at a big international conference in South Africa.
A public meeting is to hear the latest on plans to close a ward at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
The health secretary's claim the NHS is enjoying its "best year ever" is condemned by nursing leaders.
A Worcestershire doctor who botched an operation can practise again if he retrains, the GMC rules.
Scientists are developing a method they hope to use to predict how individual patients will respond to medicines.
Cosmetic breast implants do not increase the overall risk of getting cancer, a long-term study suggests.
PFI projects cost the NHS more than necessary as firms pass on the cost of delays, business leaders say.
Repeated hiccup attacks combined with loss of weight and swallowing difficulties could signal cancer, an Irish researcher has said.
The disease tends to affect older people - but can strike at any time.
A week by week guide to pregnancy taking in how the baby develops, changes to the mother and key scan dates.
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