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BBC Health News: 11-25-2004
The UK's growing sexual health crisis is to be tackled with a £300m investment for clinics and advertising.
Plans are being considered to make an antibiotic - for eyes - available without prescription at pharmacies.
A teenage girl, bitten by a bat, is the first known person to survive rabies without a vaccination, say doctors.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service says the lack of abortion services for women who are 20-24 weeks pregnant is a scandal.
Reforms to ensure more people have access to NHS dentists are at risk of failing, a watchdog says.
A gel to destroy cervical cancer cells and minimise the threat of disease is under development.
A protein produced by the heart during its development can minimise heart attack damage, research suggests.
Few refugee doctors living in the UK are working in the NHS, the British Medical Association says.
NI's hospital waiting lists climb by more than 40% in the last eight years, according to a new report.
A clinical psychologist is given a suspended prison sentence for indecently assaulting "vulnerable" female patients.
Half of older homeless people in London have physical health problems, according to homeless charity St Mungo's.
A five-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder is appealing for more bone marrow donors from ethnic minorities.
Hospital equipment used for internal examinations is not always cleaned between patients, a survey has found.
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.
Gordon Brown says the UK will back a multi-million pound battle to ensure poorest get a new malaria vaccine.
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