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BBC Health News: 12-08-2004
Doctors believe a new drug could improve survival rates among some older patients with breast cancer.
Experts say a new £2m awareness campaign on hepatitis C is too little too late to prevent many deaths.
Much of the NHS in England is not ready to tackle osteoporosis and falls among older people, a survey finds.
Accumulated lead exposure may increase the risk of developing a cataract, research suggests.
Negotiations on reforms aimed to ensure more people have access to NHS dentists have broken down.
A child dies of hunger every five seconds, eight years on from a pledge to halve the world's hungry, a UN agency says.
A significant number of consultant physician posts are not being filled, a survey has found.
Ear-splitting music in pubs and clubs is putting staff's hearing at serious risk, say campaigners.
A woman whose epileptic fits have returned is told she will have to wait a year to be seen by a specialist.
Hospitals will be told exactly how to clean their wards under new guidelines hoped to cut MRSA deaths.
A new treatment may be effective against the most common and deadly form of brain cancer.
The human parathyroid gland, which regulates calcium levels, probably evolved from fish gills, say researchers.
A reduction in the time people spend asleep could partly account for soaring obesity rates, research shows.
A man dies six days after contracting MRSA during a visit to Wrexham Maelor Hospital for injections.
Children born in May have an increased risk of going on to develop multiple sclerosis, research has suggested.
Surgeons perfect a way to build up the size of very small penises, enabling proper urination, and a full sex life.
Doctors have been issued with new guidance on the prescribing of antidepressants.
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