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BBC Health News: 10-24-2004
Pharmacies in England and Wales could offer some services currently provided by GPs under a new contract.
NHS patients are to be offered a fitness and diet plan to improve national health, according to a newspaper.
A man is being treated in a Dublin hospital with a suspected case of new variant CJD.
People genetically prone to arthritis who also smoke are storing up trouble for the future, researchers warn.
Scientists believe the honey bee may hold the key to understanding more about alcohol addiction.
Treating children with anti-psychotic drugs may increase the risk of a condition which leads to diabetes, research suggests.
Young women who have mastectomies should be given drugs to prevent the cancer returning, research suggests.
A UK team is developing a way to use mobile phones to make lives of diabetics easier.
Doctors can withhold treatment from a terminally-ill baby if his condition worsens, a judge rules.
European regulators are conducting a safety review of arthritis drugs amid fears they could increase the risk of strokes and heart attacks.
The European Commission launches graphic images showing the damage smoking can do to people's health.
Scientists believe they have found a way to make prostate cancer treatment more effective.
Scientists believe they have disproved a 30-year-old notion of what causes Down's syndrome.
Children of older fathers are more likely to develop schizophrenia in later life, research suggests.
The oral contraceptive pill may protect women from heart disease and some cancers, scientists suggest.
One of Africa's biggest HIV/Aids training centres for health professionals launches in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
A terminally ill baby who was the subject of a high profile court case is one year old on Thursday.
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