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• Cholera outbreak strikes Zimbabwe

  Posted: November 21st, 2008, 1:18pm EST

  The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe nears 300 as the water and sanitation situation "worsens", the UN says.

• Hairspray linked to birth defect

  Posted: November 21st, 2008, 8:38am EST

  Boys born to women exposed to hairspray in the workplace may have a higher risk of being born with a genital defect.

• 'Superglue' brain op for toddler

  Posted: November 21st, 2008, 8:13am EST

  The parents of a 17-month-old girl tell how surgeons used glue to seal tiny brain blood vessels that were threatening her life.

• Asbestos victims win 'test case'

  Posted: November 21st, 2008, 6:59am EST

  Asbestos-related cancer victims and their families have won an important test case over access to compensation.

• War wounds

  Posted: November 21st, 2008, 3:59am EST

  How conflict has driven medical advance

• About face! How babies in their buggies benefit from eye contact.

  Posted: November 20th, 2008, 7:32pm EST

  The direction a child is facing in their pram could affect their development and stress levels, a study suggests.

• Asbestos compensation ruling due

  Posted: November 20th, 2008, 7:24pm EST

  A ruling is expected that could have profound implications for UK asbestos-related cancer victims and their families.

• Asbestos pay-out ruling due

  Posted: November 20th, 2008, 7:24pm EST

  A ruling is expected that could have profound implications for UK asbestos-related cancer victims and their families.

• Hospital bug fine plan 'unfair'

  Posted: November 20th, 2008, 7:22pm EST

  The UK government's plan to fine hospitals for not hitting Clostridium difficile targets is unfair, experts say.

• Young drinkers offered education

  Posted: November 20th, 2008, 7:05pm EST

  Police are tackling the growing problem of drink-related crime by offering youngsters a re-education programme.

• Hospital to bury unclaimed organs

  Posted: November 20th, 2008, 9:59am EST

  Parents of children whose organs were removed at Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital have until May to reclaim their body parts.

• Dog 'sniffs out' owner's cancer

  Posted: November 20th, 2008, 8:52am EST

  A man from north Oxfordshire credits his pet Rottweiler with sniffing out his skin cancer.

• Over-the-counter Viagra bid ends

  Posted: November 20th, 2008, 7:38am EST

  The makers of the anti-impotence drug Viagra have withdrawn an application for the medicine to be available without a prescription.

• No belly button

  Posted: November 20th, 2008, 7:07am EST

  This model has no navel. Why the lack of tummy button?

• Walking tall

  Posted: November 20th, 2008, 5:47am EST

  Help pounding Big Apple pavements

• Heavy drinkers 'lie to doctors'

  Posted: November 19th, 2008, 7:00pm EST

  Almost two in five people who drink to excess lie to their doctor about how much alcohol they really consume, says a survey.

• Rapid care 'cuts baby's HIV risk'

  Posted: November 19th, 2008, 6:59pm EST

  Rapid drug treatment of babies with HIV dramatically cuts their risk of death and debilitating disease, research shows.

• Not so easy

  Posted: November 19th, 2008, 8:10am EST

  How airline almost stopped windpipe transplant

• Deal reached on NHS drug prices

  Posted: November 19th, 2008, 8:00am EST

  The government has struck a deal on the cost of drugs which should save the NHS in the UK £400m a year.

• Technology to eradicate malaria

  Posted: November 19th, 2008, 3:40am EST

  Emerging technologies could boost supplies of essential plant-based drugs to combat malaria, says a report.

• United in grief

  Posted: November 19th, 2008, 1:58am EST

  The families of Clostridium difficile victims speak out

• Hidden dangers

  Posted: November 19th, 2008, 1:02am EST

  How seagulls may contaminate your kitchen

• Lung disease diagnosis confusion

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 8:46pm EST

  Most GPs have difficulty differentiating chronic severe lung disease from asthma, a UK survey finds.

• Nurses warn over needle injuries

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 8:40pm EST

  Nurses are calling for safer needles to be used after a poll suggested nearly half have been accidentally jabbed.

• What a way to go. British toilet habits revealed

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 8:32pm EST

  Reading, chatting and texting are among the favourite activities of Britons on the toilet, a survey suggests.

• Windpipe transplant breakthrough

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 8:28pm EST

  Surgeons in Spain claim a major breakthrough by giving a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells.

• Windpipe transplant advance

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 8:28pm EST

  Surgeons in Spain claim a major breakthrough by giving a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells.

• 'I can't forget'

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 11:02am EST

  Noel Martin explains why he still wants to die

• Zimbabwe police bar health march

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 9:08am EST

  Police in Zimbabwe bar medical staff from marching to protest about the country's deteriorating health system.

• Left the gas on?

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 7:14am EST

  We all worry, but when does it become an illness?