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• Rowling gives £10m for MS centre

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 4:06am CDT

  Author JK Rowling is donating £10m to set up a multiple sclerosis research centre at Edinburgh University.

• How to spot and combat bedbugs

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 2:54am CDT

  Clive Boase: "Education and awareness is key" in combating bed bug infestation.

• MS activity 'alters with seasons'

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 7:01pm CDT

  The severity of multiple sclerosis seems to change with the seasons, research suggests.

• Baby died after superbug hit ward

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 7:30am CDT

  A baby died and three others became ill after a superbug resistant to common antibiotics hit a London hospital, it is revealed.

• Heart drug 'an exiting discovery'

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 4:04am CDT

  Professor Martin Cowie explains how a new drug "slows the pulse down and so helps to take the strain off the heart"

• Heart drug 'exciting discovery'

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 4:04am CDT

  Professor Martin Cowie explains how a new drug "slows the pulse down and so helps to take the strain off the heart".

• Pill may 'cut heart failure rate'

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 3:14am CDT

  A pill costing less than £1.50 a day has the potential to save the lives of thousands of heart failure patients, research suggests.

• Cannabis may relieve chronic pain

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 1:17am CDT

  Smoking cannabis from a pipe can provide pain relief for patients with damaged nerves, a small study suggests.

• Motion capture clue to human behaviour

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 12:23am CDT

  The system of digitising actors to create characters in films like Avatar is being used to measure human behaviour in real life.

• Hospitals 'still fail' on feeding

  Posted: August 29th, 2010, 7:29pm CDT

  Many hospitals across the UK are not doing enough to spot elderly people at risk from malnutrition, says a charity.

• Test 'can predict C-section need'

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 6:17pm CDT

  A test which could stop women labouring for hours in the hope of a "normal" birth only to end up with a Caesarean section has been developed in Sweden.

• 'People have confidence in NHS Direct'

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 10:49am CDT

  The government has confirmed it is planning to scrap the NHS Direct telephone service in England and replace it with a cheaper option.

• 'There's confidence in NHS Direct'

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 10:49am CDT

  The government has confirmed it is planning to scrap the NHS Direct telephone service in England and replace it with a cheaper option.

• 'I have to graze on food all day'

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 8:01am CDT

  Oesophageal cancer survivor Larry Rees has described how the radical surgery he undertook has impacted on his life.

• Government scrapping NHS Direct

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 7:52am CDT

  The coalition government confirms plans to scrap the NHS Direct helpline in England and replace it with an alternative service.

• Poverty link to child tooth decay

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 6:21pm CDT

  A third of Scots three-year-olds living in deprived areas suffer from poor dental health, a new study suggests.

• Food pipe cancer 'doubles in men'

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 6:01pm CDT

  Cancers of the food pipe in Britain have doubled in men over 25 years, figures from Cancer Research UK show.

• Male oesophageal cancer 'doubles'

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 6:01pm CDT

  Cancers of the food pipe in Britain have doubled in men over 25 years, figures from Cancer Research UK show.

• Vocal therapy for Alzheimer’s patients

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 1:07pm CDT

  Singers in Norfolk are feeling the benefits of a choir with a difference, one that is brought to life by members of the public affected by dementia.

• MP in sex education 'attack' row

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 11:37am CDT

  A Tory MP is criticised after appearing to blame the rise in sexually transmitted infections on greater sex education.

• Ten-fold rise in weight-loss ops

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 2:30am CDT

  The number of people in England undergoing surgery on the NHS to help them lose weight has increased ten-fold in less than a decade, figures show.

• 'How surgery helped us lose weight'

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 12:46am CDT

  The number of NHS patients having surgery in order to lose weight has increased by nearly 800 per cent in just five years.

• Organic goods

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 11:34pm CDT

  Could allowing the sale of body parts be the way to encourage donors?

• Top eight cancer signs pinpointed

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 9:07pm CDT

  The eight unexplained symptoms most closely linked to cancer are highlighted by health researchers.

• No jail for Germany HIV pop star

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 1:10pm CDT

  An HIV-positive German pop star accused of infecting a former partner with the virus is given a two-year suspended sentence.

• Frog skin could beat 'superbugs'

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 11:25am CDT

  Frog skin may be an important source of new antibiotics to treat superbugs say researchers.

• Mental challenge

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 7:12am CDT

  How will the Chilean miners deal with being trapped underground?

• No jail for Germany HIV popstar

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 6:42am CDT

  An HIV-positive German popstar accused of infecting a former partner with the virus is given a two-year suspended sentence.

• 100 portraits

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 5:42am CDT

  The challenge one man with motor neurone disease has set himself

• Men at work

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 3:51am CDT

  Do paternity laws undermine new dads?