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The King's medical team are "sufficiently pleased" with his progress after he was diagnosed with cancer in February.

Steve Young is part of the tests to see if an mRNA jab can stop the deadliest skin cancer returning.

The Southern Health Trust says the move is not out of concern but to provide extra assurance.

The World Health Organization also finds higher rates of drinking and vaping among teenage girls.

There were more than 12,000 UK deaths in the past decade, many of them needless, a charity warns.

The government wants to stop people smoking by raising the legal age limit for buying cigarettes.

The cost-of-living crisis is having an impact - but health concerns remain the top reason for quitting.

An online friendship between two mums led to a new kidney for five-year-old Destiny-Rae.

The number of under 65s struggling with poor health is rising - and it's a threat to the economy.

We asked some GPs what they thought of other professionals taking on their responsibility for sick notes.

Campaigner Andy Evans said it has raised awareness of those given infected blood products.

Specialist clinics are helping increasing numbers of young ketamine users with damaged bladders.

They were given infected blood products in trials without their knowledge, the BBC has found.

The football commentator pays tribute to a speech therapist who helped him talk again after surgery.

Victoria Atkins is challenged to name some health trusts meeting their targets to cut waiting lists.

Cannabis vapes are being sold containing the dangerous animal tranquiliser xylazine, experts say.

Thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis C, in the worst treatment disaster in NHS history.

Thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis C, in the worst treatment disaster in NHS history.

Many countries have legalised assisted dying, assisted suicide or euthanasia, which are different.

The prescription drug has been linked to a number of deaths in the UK and around the world.

BBC News analysis reveals wide variation across England in waits for planned hospital treatment.

The government will introduce a new vaping tax on top of measures to stop children vaping.

People living with alopecia could have access to treatment on the NHS in Scotland for the first time.

A group of teenagers in Fife have been making a documentary about the impact of disposable vapes.

The PM says he tries to fast at the start of the week so he can indulge in his “weakness for sugary things” on other days.

The BBC's Kirsten Campbell outlines what can be expected during three weeks of evidence held in Edinburgh.

The BBC asked two junior doctors in England to show us their payslips and reveal their salaries.

The appeal is clear - but should we be turning to appetite-suppressing injections?

An inquiry into the "worst treatment disaster in NHS history" hears its final evidence.

Families of some of those affected are giving evidence at a public inquiry into the treatment disaster.

A woman who lost both parents in the infected blood scandal says many victims still need justice.