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The risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes, a study of 400,000 pregnancies in England suggests.
An 83-year-old woman is fitted with a jaw made by a 3D printer in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind.
A campaign to stop people smoking in cars when carrying children - and which could pave the way for a ban - is launched by the Welsh government.
The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet.
Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists.
Research which suggests that patients are more likely to die in hospital if they are admitted at the weekend is backed up by a major study.
Three British men die and three more people remain in hospital after contracting Legionnaires' disease while on holiday in Spain, a tour company says.
A record number of potentially dangerous new legal highs were found in Europe last year, say doctors.
Euro MPs block changes to food labels that would have allowed claims such as "now contains 15% less sugar".
Sugar added to processed foods is as damaging as alcohol and should be regulated, claim US health experts.
Around one million packets of birth control tablets are being recalled in the US as they might not prevent pregnancy.
Measures introduced to lower the suicide rate in England and Wales in the past decade appear to have been successful, according to an analysis.
A dose of ultrasound can stop the production of sperm, according to researchers investigating a new form of contraception.
Researchers turn brain waves from thoughts of words into actual words, in a breakthrough that could benefit comatose and locked-in patients.
Prof Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, outlines her fears about the "commercialisation of childbirth"
The Democratic Republic of Congo faces so many challenges battling diseases such as malaria, AIDS and cholera that cancer has been pushed off the radar.
Professor Javed Akram, who is leading the clinical investigation into contaminated medicines in Pakistan, explained how the problem was identified.
Katie Piper told Radio 5 live about being able to see after she was blinded in one eye after an acid attack.
Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists at the University of Cambridge.
A singing teacher - who once auditioned for the Spice Girls, is trying to raise awareness of the rare neurological condition that's paralysed her voice box.
More than 100 people have died in Lahore after taking contaminated heart medicine, Pakistan officials have said.
High school students in the small community of Leroy, New York State, have been coming down with strange tics and verbal outbursts, with no obvious cause.
A Tyneside soldier travels to Austria for the first stage of a process to fit him with a bionic arm he will be able to control with his mind.
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Mother tries to raise the profile of a "syndrome without a name"
Are Dutch officials too close to the tobacco industry?
Why do some people never get depressed?
Egyptian mothers take to the internet for help and advice
