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19 October 2014 Last updated at 08:17

Sport plan to aid mental healthFootball players

A £2m programme using sport to help people suffering from mental health problems is announced by Sport England and Mind.

Pill packetsPharmacies 'could save NHS £1bn'

Treating common ailments like coughs and colds at community pharmacies could save the NHS over £1bn a year, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society claims.

Ed MilibandLabour pledges cancer test wait cut

By 2020 no-one in England will have to wait more than a week for cancer tests and results, Labour pledges.

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Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia August 17, 2014.Ebola crisis

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Hugh Pym Article written by Hugh Pym Hugh Pym Health editor

Postnatal depression falling through the cracks?

7 October 2014

Regular checks for mothers six weeks after giving birth may be too rushed to pick up cases of postnatal depression, warn leading doctors.

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Fergus Walsh Article written by Fergus Walsh Fergus Walsh Medical correspondent

Ebola trial volunteer immunised

17 September 2014

A trial of an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus has begun in Oxford.

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Nick Triggle Article written by Nick Triggle Nick Triggle Health correspondent

NHS strikes: What next?

13 October 2014

The first NHS strike over pay for more than 30 years has taken place. It could be the start of a period of industrial unrest. Is there a way out of this dispute, asks Nick Triggle.

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