The funny, kind, 12-year-old who took a fatal overdose
Eleanor Lawrie and Michael Buchanan Social affairs, BBC news Rachel Halliwell When 12-year-old Semina Halliwell was lying in hospital, she asked the consultant if she was going to die. Semina…
Inside the Royal Free – what it tells us about the NHS
Nick Triggle, Hugh Pym, Chloe Hayward, Vicki Loader & Jim Reed BBC News BBC News The BBC has been reporting live from the Royal Free Hospital in London to illustrate…
NHS ‘recovery plan’ fails to deliver more dentists for patients
NHS leaders have acknowledged a recovery plan for dentistry in England, launched by the previous Conservative government a year ago, has comprehensively failed. One aspect of the plan – ‘Golden…
Keighley woman loses 8st on low-carb diet to reverse diabetes
Jamie Coulson Health Correspondent BBC Sue Myerscough lost more than eight stone after adopting a low-carb diet A diabetes patient who lost eight-and-a-half-stone on a low-carb diet recommended by her…
Up to 140,000 blood scandal relatives may claim compensation
Getty Images As many as 140,000 bereaved parents, children and siblings of infected blood scandal victims may claim compensation under new laws laid before Parliament. It is thought 30,000 people…
Judge warns over man who ‘fathered 180 children’
Instagram | Robert Charles Albon Joe Albon visited Wales in 2023 and posted this photo on Instagram: “Joe Donor in Wales… do you need help with a baby? Send a…
Brain drug cure needed for future ‘trapped in’ generations
Sharon Barbour Health Correspondent, North East and Cumbria BBC Samantha Dennison is at least the fourth generation of her family to have neuroferritinopathy, but her daughter has escaped it A…
Ill-fitting menstrual cup may cause health complications
Doctors are advising women to take care using menstrual cups, after one user developed temporary kidney problems because the cup was misaligned. The patient, in her 30s, had been experiencing…
Can you health hack your immune system?
Emma Lynch/BBC Braving the 3.9C water on a winter morning at the west reservoir in London It is a cold morning in the depths of winter. And I feel like…
Photos show ‘crumbling’, abandoned hospital rooms
Miya Chahal BBC News, Nottingham Reporting fromQueen’s Medical Centre BBC A corridor leading to the pain clinic, which has flooded due to a pump failure Inside one of Nottingham’s busiest…