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  A third of children's heart units should halt operations, says review

  16 Feb 2011: Consultation to be published today places doubts on the future of heart surgery in London, Leeds and Leicester

• A close call on health inequalities

  16 Feb 2011: New health inequality findings reveal that even in the wealthiest boroughs, some residents can expect to die long before their neighbours. Rowenna Davis reports

• Zinc can ease cold symptoms – study

  16 Feb 2011:

  Taking zinc syrup, lozenges or tablets within a day of the onset of cold symptoms can reduce severity and length of illness

• Disability benefit reforms: Minister undeterred by campaigners' anger

  16 Feb 2011: Maria Miller, the minister for disabled people, says incapacity benefits must be overhauled, writes Amelia Gentleman

• ADHD diet success

  16 Feb 2011: Letters: We hope that as a result of this study the elimination diet will be recognised as a valuable first step in treating ADHD

• Northerners '20% more likely to die under 75' than southerners

  15 Feb 2011:

  North-south divide in life expectancy is widest for 40 years and likely to worsen because of recession, researchers say

• BMA leader could be toppled in revolt by doctors against NHS reforms

  15 Feb 2011:

  • Many GPs say shakeup should be fought outright
  • Hamish Meldrum may be forced to quit at special meeting

• The cure for an ailing, ageing NHS is to cut it down to size

  15 Feb 2011: Simon Jenkins: Since its nationalisation, the health service has defied sensible pruning. Losing 24,000 backroom staff would be a start

• Test case over sterilisation puts court of protection under public scrutiny

  15 Feb 2011:

  Woman with learning disability at centre of latest controversial issue to be heard by a court which usually sits in private

• Mother's legal plea to sterilise her daughter remains unresolved

  15 Feb 2011: Judge rules court has not enough evidence to decide on operation for 21-year-old who is about to give birth

• Poor treatment of older people in the NHS is an attitude problem

  15 Feb 2011: Health service ombudsman report reveals shocking treatment of the over-65s, who are being failed again and again, writes Michelle Mitchell

• Elderly NHS patients' harrowing plight is revealed in report

  15 Feb 2011: Some elderly patients were given no help to eat or left in urine-soaked clothes, according to the health service ombudsman

• Ecstasy 'does not damage brain power'

  15 Feb 2011: Study contradicts previous research on effects of class A drug

• Liberal Democrat cracks appear over NHS reform plans

  14 Feb 2011: Party rebels set to raise issue at spring conference, but minister says criticisms of bill based on myths

• When cosmetic surgery is a marker of ambition

  14 Feb 2011:

  Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor: People who travel abroad for surgery are often concerned about displaying go-getting initiative – but don't appreciate the risks

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