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BBC Health News: 10-10-2004
A discovery could lead to drugs to treat a 'forgotten' tropical disease, scientists hope.
Doctors believe people with heart failure can use Tai Chi to help them recover.
A scheme provides much needed help and relaxation for children who are caring for a relative.
Heathrow airport is "as safe as ever" after a worker contracted Legionnaires' disease, management says.
A UK charity insists it is not breaking the law by referring women abroad for late abortions.
Charities band together to support people with schizophrenia, as patients say they get too little help.
A UN agency is investigating claims a key consultation on sugar consumption was funded by the sugar industry.
A food extract could be used to improve the effects of an established cancer drug, research suggests.
A sticky substance from the skin of frogs could be used to repair human knee joints, scientists believe.
Stem cells have been used to save mice embryos from a lethal heart defect.
A common treatment for head injuries could be killing rather than saving patients, experts warn.
A landmark judgement means fewer Northern Ireland women may have to travel to England for an abortion.
Air rather than oxygen should be used to resuscitate newborn babies and may even save lives, research suggests.
Scientists show tiny changes to modern flu viruses could make them as deadly as the lethal 1918 strain.
A judge rules a seriously ill premature baby should not be revived if she stops breathing.
The GMC says it may have been too lenient in the case of a pathologist who examined a victim of Harold Shipman.
A device projecting an enhanced image of underlying veins onto skin could avoid botched injection attempts.
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