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Private drug helps cancer man left to die

Cancer patient sent home to die by the NHS sees health improve after cashing in pension and paying privately for drugs

'Pregnant man' gives birth to baby girl

Thomas Beatie, who conceived a child after a sex-change operation, has given birth to a healthy baby girl at a hospital

Parents can reduce the danger

Several factors are now well known to raise the risk, and this has led to a substantial decline in the incidence of cot death

Research: brain chemical 'key to cot death'

Scientists discover the first direct evidence that an imbalance of serotonin in the brainstem can kill infant animals

'The NHS is fine - if you're at death's door'

The question is whether a health service is obliged to pay for treatment abroad when it has refused it at home on medical grounds

NHS patients offered Europe-wide treatment

New proposals on health rights will allow Britons to escape NHS queues for treatment in any of the 27 EU states

Health tourists won't come to Britain

The Government interrupted its celebration of the NHS yesterday to issue a sharp warning to anyone tempted to desert it

Dentist contract reform 'has failed patients'

Changes designed to end 'drill and fill' culture have made dentists even more prone to avoiding time-consuming repair work

More than teething pains

NHS dentistry has a terrible reputation. Americans are said to recognise the British at 100 yards by their poor teeth

NHS funding to depend on patient satisfaction

Bonuses or fines will be handed out to doctors and hospitals, based on how they are rated by people who use them

A classier NHS, but still no choice

Darzi review concentrates on raising NHS standards, but still offers no choice, says Times health editor Nigel Hawkes

Key points of the draft NHS Constitution

Key points of the NHS Constitution, which sets out legally enforceable rights and pledges for patients and staff

Price complaint alerted boss

Wensleydale Bacon chief became suspicious of a widespread food fraud after he received a complaint about overcharging

Saga generation send STI rates soaring

Viagra-fuelled over-45s having risky sex with people they meet online are blamed for a surge in sexually transmitted diseases

Food poison alert over trader identity fraud

FSA and police issue national warning amid fears that unsafe food, including meat and seafood, is being sold on by a fraudster

‘I was the first baby to be born under the NHS’

Aneira Thomas has relied on the NHS all of her life, through births and bereavements, accidents and emergencies

An exercise in flawed logic

Logic has never held much sway in an organisation like the NHS that for some has acquired quasi-religious status

Ministers warned over 'limitless' NHS drugs bill

The plans, to be included in new NHS constitution unveiled later today, have been branded as unsustainable

Brain-death test dropped to boost organ donation

Government to allow organs to be taken from people before they are officially brain dead to tackle a shortage of transplant donors

Katy the bus baby is a mother’s joy

Linda Weeks, 55, gave birth to a baby girl after advertising on buses for an egg donor in a desperate attempt to become a mother