BBC Health News

Here's why you need more than one Covid jab.

UK health officials say no one factor linking all the cases has been identified so far.

China's biggest city, a vital global trade hub, begins to relax crippling Covid restrictions.

Cervical screening is changing, but fewer checks will not mean more cancers missed, a study confirms.

A senior GP warns that the steep rise is likely to have a "significant impact" on doctors and staff.

Surgeons successfully transplanted the donated organ into a patient who, a year on, is doing well.

James MacDougall offered his sperm via social media but did not disclose his genetic syndrome.

Shortage has left some areas of England having to cope with half the number of doctors than others.

Max Dingle, 83, died after his head became trapped in a bed at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

A patient paid to diagnose slipped discs and is living in pain with private surgery costing £15,000.

Three families say they "objected to the poor care" before their relatives were taken to hospital.

Women burned more body fat during morning exercise whereas evenings counted more for men.

Anyone who tests positive should abstain from sex while symptomatic and use condoms for eight weeks.

A 70-year-old kidney transplant patient is waiting for a drug to be reapproved.

Frustrations with waiting times and drunk patients are thought to be behind the 5% increase.

A couple who lost their baby say staff had no idea what to do for them when they arrived at A&E.

Shama Hanif tells of her her struggle with anorexia and how she has cast off the shame she once felt.

Some medical leaders say protest-free areas are the "only way" to protect patients and staff.

"Copy and paste" conspiracies that spread during the pandemic are being pushed for monkeypox.

More than half of those to die in the latest wave to hit Hong Kong were care home residents.