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Gene switch 'key to heart health' BBC

Clegg says NHS plans must proceed BBC

Global abortion rate stalls while proportion of unsafe abortions rises BMJ

Four patients die thirsty or starving EVERY DAY on our hospital wards show damning new statistics The Daily Mail

You can't restructure NHS and make cuts: Tory-led committee blasts Lansley's reforms for not meeting needs of ageing Britons The Daily Mail
Health and welfare battle intensifies The Financial Times

Doubts cast on breast cancer screening The Guardian

Exclusive: hundreds waited hours for ambulances after software failure HSJ

Managers encouraged to blow whistle on colleagues in draft plans to regulate NHS leaders HSJ

Tories pay to hit NHS targets they had vowed to scrap The Independent

MRSA treatment 'may be more effective' if alternative drug used The Nursing Times

Nursing forum members will not be 'great and the good' The Nursing Times

GPC slams deanery plans for fourth year of GP training Pulse

GPs should offer help to smokers 'whether they want to quit or not' Pulse

Health reforms will push NHS 'over a cliff' The Telegraph

Top surgeons demand ban on advertising breast enlargements The Telegraph

By Theme

Stepping Hill hospital investigation

Insulin poisoning: Murder detectives release male nurse on bail The Daily Mail

Stepping Hill hospital patient dies after suspected saline contamination The Guardian

Fifth death investigated at poison probe hospital The Independent

Stepping Hill hospital poison probe: fifth patient dies The Mirror

Fifth death probed at Stepping Hill hospital The Sun

Fifth poisoning death at Stepping Hill Hospital The Telegraph

By Publication

BBC

Lung emergencies hit 10 year high

Nanoparticle trick 'boosts jabs'

The Daily Mail

Five more babies monitored for deadly infection that has killed three children and left three more fighting for life

'Silent Thalidomide': Thousands of mothers and their daughters at risk of cancer from anti-miscarriage drugs they took decades ago
 

The Guardian

Public health improvement plan given £2bn funding

HSJ

Exclusive: DH letters to staff admit 'no clarity' on jobs

The Independent

Regulate the cosmetic industry, say surgeons

The Nursing Times

Nurses should not take all the blame for poor nutrition

Drug to manage arthritis pain 'suitable for use'

The Mirror

Government hands over a quarter of NHS budget before the reforms are passed by Parliament

The Sun

The confused kids putting off puberty

The Telegraph

Four patients die each day from hunger in hospital

NHS lottery if you're fat or smoke

14% rise in British members of Dignitas

Older single women 'dismissing cervical cancer risk'

Electrical pulses to the brain could help stroke victims

The Times

Patients face new negligence risk