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A new DNA test looks at genetics as a risk factor in developing heart disease.

Social care, prevention and public health services could be cut if government insists on funding 6% pay rise from health budget

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NHS England is calling families to ensure their children are vaccinated

Bill Bailey is your new host as Extraordinary Portraits season 3 celebrates 75 years of the NHS.

The Welsh singer said her symptoms included feeling ‘poisoned’

Recent media reports have highlighted the issue of nurses coming to the UK to work for the NHS from poorer countries with their own nursing shortfalls. This is a problem because when nurses leave countries that already have workforce shortages, healthcare in those countries inevitably suffers.

Staff on Agenda for Change contracts were offered a 5% baseline pay rise earlier this year while doctors have been offered a 6% deal.

Piers Corbyn? Laurence Fox? Howling Laud Hope? Count Binface is looking like a good bet in Uxbridge and South Ruislip

Thousands could be hospitalised and dozens die if MMR vaccine take-up doesn’t rise, say immunologists

Warning of up to 160,000 cases in London if vaccine uptake does not pick up