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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJoyce Bryant’s family say they do not know how long she has to live Thousands of vulnerable patients are missing out on NHS funding for home care that they are legally entitled to, it is being claimed. Some families say they have spent nearly all their life […]

Image copyright Getty Images Children in England face a postcode lottery when it comes to getting speech and language therapy, a report claims. England’s Children’s Commissioner says that in the top 25% of areas, at least £291.65 a year is spent on children with these needs. In the lowest quarter that drops to £30.94 or

Image caption Menpaw Mro lost his daughter to malaria A ground-breaking study in Bangladesh has found that using data from mobile phone networks to track the movement of people across the country can help predict where outbreaks of diseases such as malaria are likely to occur, enabling health authorities to take preventative measures. Every year,

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether residents of two Montana communities can continue their decade-long effort to get the Atlantic Richfield Co. to pay for a more thorough cleanup of arsenic left on properties after a century of copper smelting. The Montana Supreme Court ruled in December 2017 for the residents of Opportunity and

A new study shoots down the notion that medical marijuana laws can prevent opioid overdose deaths, challenging a favorite talking point of legal pot advocates. Researchers repeated an analysis that sparked excitement years ago. The previous work linked medical marijuana laws to slower than expected increases in state prescription opioid death rates from 1999 to

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Jean Purdy and Robert Edwards worked together on the development of IVF A female scientist’s contribution to the discovery of IVF went “unrecognised”, her colleague believed. Sir Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe are known as the pioneers of in vitro fertilisation, which led to the world’s first test tube

Image copyright Getty Images Giving blood is something that comes with a lot of rules. But there are also a lot of myths and half-truths that people believe. The number of men giving blood has dropped by 24.8% over the past five years, and the number of women giving blood has dropped by 6%, according

Image copyright Getty Images Hundreds of UK men are trying out a new screening test for prostate cancer to see if it should eventually be offered routinely on the NHS. The test is a non-invasive MRI scan that takes images of the inside of the body to check for any abnormal growths. Scientists running the

Image copyright SWNS Image caption Lucy Letby was first arrested in July last year A nurse has been rearrested by police investigating the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit. Lucy Letby was first arrested in July last year on suspicion of the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder

Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s technology correspondent, went public with his Parkinson’s diagnosis following concerns from viewers watching him on TV who noticed his hand shaking. But it was, in fact, thanks to a previous television appearance that he sought medical advice from a specialist. Following a live broadcast in Jersey in 2018, a neurologist got