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BBC Health News: 02-05-2005
Stroke survivors who stop taking prescribed daily aspirin triple the risk of another stroke within a month, research suggests.
Women undergoing breast implant surgery have a 2.5% risk of infection, a global study says.
Researchers are to try to discover why pregnancy seems to have a beneficial effect on rheumatoid arthritis.
Growth tables used to chart a baby's development may be inaccurate, on-going research suggests.
Doctors are seeing an epidemic of mumps after a 10-fold increase in suspected cases in a year.
Doctors have successfully transplanted insulin-producing cells from a mother to her diabetic daughter.
Alcohol causes almost as many deaths and disabilities globally as smoking and high blood pressure, a study says.
The majority of teachers think sex education should include information on abortion, a survey suggests.
A GP is arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after the death of a woman.
Surgeons in Peru prepare an operation to separate the legs of a girl born with "mermaid syndrome".
New guidelines restricting the patients that GPs can refer to hospital will mean cancers are missed, warn doctors.
Babies whose mothers use a type of anti-depressant may be born with withdrawal symptoms, research suggests.
Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
A Northern Ireland patient has been waiting almost seven years for orthopaedic surgery, it is revealed.
A mobile casualty unit will help cope with drunk and injured rugby supporters during the Wales v England match.
Rules on university funding must be altered to safeguard medical students' training, academics say.
A High Court judge rules that a dentist who admitted possessing child pornography must be struck off.
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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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