BBC News - Health
Updated: 5 hours 44 min ago
Thu, 02/17/2022 - 12:54
Our health correspondents answer some of your questions.
Thu, 02/17/2022 - 01:12
Danielle Ray's father died aged 63 and more than 14,000 UK men are thought to be undiagnosed.
Thu, 02/17/2022 - 00:02
There are around five million people in the UK who still haven't had a Covid jab.
Wed, 02/16/2022 - 18:21
Services at two hospitals are affected as staff who were in contact with Lassa fever patients isolate.
Wed, 02/16/2022 - 17:00
But the roll out will be "non-urgent", with a focus on parental choice, the government says.
Wed, 02/16/2022 - 06:13
Strict Covid protocols - which are still in place - have seen routine dental care dramatically reduced.
Wed, 02/16/2022 - 01:13
Some wines contain more sugar than a doughnut, but carry no nutritional information on their labels.
Tue, 02/15/2022 - 17:04
Wales' health minister says she is following unpublished advice from the UK's vaccines advisers.
Tue, 02/15/2022 - 16:58
As well as stopping some infections, jabs "cut the risk" of long Covid in those who still catch the virus.
Tue, 02/15/2022 - 12:33
Death certificates suggest fewer people are dying with, or from, Covid.
Tue, 02/15/2022 - 12:00
Matt and Liam started a podcast about miscarriage after their own personal experiences of loss.
Tue, 02/15/2022 - 11:44
Stephanie Coles was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer after she found a lump on her stomach.
Tue, 02/15/2022 - 11:30
Busting myths and explaining the facts around vaccines.
Tue, 02/15/2022 - 08:33
At 475,000 people, Northern Ireland's waiting lists are the worst in the UK.
Tue, 02/15/2022 - 06:10
A man was given more than three times the intended dose of a drug after instructions were misheard.
Tue, 02/15/2022 - 00:49
Paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs were widely detected, research finds.
Mon, 02/14/2022 - 13:54
Face masks could be made into sheets as part of plans to reuse PPE, health minister says.
Mon, 02/14/2022 - 13:49
There is "overwhelming" evidence of poor health outcomes for some ethnic minority groups, warn experts.
Mon, 02/14/2022 - 07:49
Safe-sex education should include how to make it enjoyable for maximum benefit, say researchers.
Mon, 02/14/2022 - 06:36
Thirty years ago Michelle Crawford from Londonderry underwent an operation that would change her life.
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