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BBC Health News: 10-03-2004
The agency responsible for monitoring the safety of medicines in the UK faces allegations it is failing to protect patients.
Drugs used to treat high blood pressure are also linked with a reduced risk of bone fractures, research shows.
Scotland's health minister pledges that patients will have a stronger say in the way the NHS is run.
Heart patients are set to benefit from a £57m purpose-built heart centre in Wolverhampton.
Experts predict a measles epidemic in London as uptake of the MMR vaccine continues to fall.
A father of a seriously ill premature baby has pleaded with the High Court not to allow doctors to let her die.
A watchdog is to develop guidelines for surgeons to help minimise the risk of the human form of mad cow disease.
Specially-adapted scanners can be used to help physicians during brain surgery, a study shows.
As many as 73 staff at a Birmingham car engine factory are struck down with serious lung diseases.
British doctors are to trial a new type of heart pump, developed in Australia, to help people with heart failure.
Muslims are being warned they need to be careful with medication if they are fasting during Ramadan.
Patients in Wales are getting cheaper prescriptions - the first step towards fulfilling a Labour promise to scrap them.
A woman whose husband died two and a half years ago gives birth to a baby girl after IVF treatment.
Politicians join the public at a rally to demand an end to hospital closures and the centralisation of services.
Women who took an epilepsy drug while pregnant are suing for damages claiming it harmed their children.
The body which regulates doctors has lodged an appeal against a High Court judgement in a "right to nutrition" case.
An artificial version of the pigment that gives tomatoes their colouring could help treat prostate cancer, say researchers.
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