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BBC Health News: 01-03-2005
Plans to allow 24-hour drinking will raise the cost to the NHS of alcohol-fuelled harm, a top medical group says.
Use of acid-suppressive drugs to beat digestive disorders increases the risk of pneumonia, researchers say.
Scientists design a device they say should help doctors work out how best to deliver babies stuck during labour.
Scientists believe they have identified a protein which could be help develop new treatments for allergies.
Drinking alcohol impairs driving ability by disrupting depth perception, researchers find.
Having reconstructive surgery does not reduce the life expectancy of women with breast cancer, a study shows.
A drug to treat a common eye disease that damages vision produced promising results in a major trial, researchers say.
Four in 10 smokers want to give up in the new year but a many have failed in previous attempts, a survey suggests.
An overwhelming majority of cases where a family suffers multiple cot deaths is down to natural causes, a study says.
Confidential papers on Prozac that went missing during a murder case are handed to US authorities by a UK journal.
A leading figure in the effort to minimise the impact of disease in developing countries has been knighted.
Eating fast food more than twice a week has strong links with weight gain and insulin resistance, a US study shows.
Quick thinking paramedics save the life of an elderly Coventry City football fan after he has a heart attack while watching his team play on Boxing Day.
Ministers have announced a £3m funding package to boost efforts to cut levels of obesity.
It is hoped a nationwide campaign will reverse falling numbers of egg and sperm donors.
A 40-year-old woman, who has no feeling from her waist down, praises bee sting therapy.
Cutting body fat reduces the risk of a sydrome linked to heart disease in middle-aged people, researchers find.
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