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Smoke alarm with mum's voice 'life saving'

Fireman carrying child

Many more children woke up to a voice-based alarm than a traditional one, a study found.

  • 25 October 2018
  • From the section Health

NHS Tracker: How do your local services perform?

Gelatine in vaccines 'disappointing'

Public Health England say the gelatine is used as a stabiliser and there "may never" be an alternative.

  • 25 October 2018
  • From the section Health

Councils buying care 'on the cheap'

Home help for vulnerable elderly squeezed as council underpay by nearly £2 an hour.

  • 25 October 2018
  • From the section Health

Can fruit flies help us crack dementia?

  • 25 October 2018
  • From the section Wales

Tips to cope as it gets colder and darker

  • 25 October 2018
  • From the section UK

Two unborn babies' spines repaired in womb

  • 24 October 2018
  • From the section Health

Features

What to do if you get an STI

  • 25 October 2018
  • From the section UK

Can't get out of bed? You might have dysania

  • 25 October 2018

'The food supplement that ruined my liver'

  • 25 October 2018
  • From the section Stories

The places where too many are fat and too many are thin

  • 23 October 2018
  • From the section Health

Did a stroke help me speak again?

  • 23 October 2018
  • From the section Stories

When women got pills for hysteria and advice on douching

  • 20 October 2018
  • From the section Health

Analysis

Reality Check: Is Scottish A&E outperforming England?

  • 9 October 2018
  • From the section Health

Should we be forced to pay £30,000 for old-age care?

Nick Triggle Health correspondent
  • 8 October 2018
  • From the section Health

Blood scandal: What have we learned?

Hugh Pym Health editor
  • 27 September 2018
  • From the section Health

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