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BBC Health News: 11-24-2004
A five-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder is appealing for more bone marrow donors from ethnic minorities.
Gordon Brown says the UK will back a multi-million pound battle to ensure poorest get a new malaria vaccine.
People who find it difficult to clear nicotine from their body may be more vulnerable to getting hooked on smoking.
An inquiry is launched into allegations about senior managers at the East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust.
New moves are being made to try to reduce the number of older people seriously injured every year by falls.
Smoking killed almost 5 million people around the world in 2000, researchers have calculated.
A new pay package for more than 1.2m health service staff has been collectively approved by the unions.
The high survival rate among the injured at the battle of Waterloo could help inform modern medicine.
The number of women living with HIV has risen in every region of the world over the past two years, figures show.
Mental health law reforms will be a top priority in the coming year, the Queen promised in her annual speech.
Hospital managers negotiate with a group of doctors to try to recoup £290,000 they have been paid in error.
A man with terminal cancer is in such agony he wants to pay a hitman to end his life because euthanasia is banned.
Chronic pain may permanently shrink decision-making areas of the brain, researchers believe.
The NHS has launched a crackdown on verbal attacks on staff in its latest bid to combat rising levels of abuse.
Cheap drugs will not control the world's spiralling rates of HIV alone and poverty must be tackled, a charity warns.
Women who are obese are more likely to experience brain tissue loss, an early sign of dementia, researchers find.
The number of cases of chlamydia in Scotland rises sharply, according to the latest official statistics.
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