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It's hoped perfusion machines that "warm livers" will increase the number of viable donated organs.

A US company has produced an ultrasound scanner that plugs into an iPhone and costs $2,000 (£1,555).

Children in London and Luton are taking part in a study to measure how their lungs are affected by air pollution.

The programme will give contact lens wearers the opportunity to recycle their lenses for free.

Scans show Rebecca Henderson has been clear of cancer for a year and is now eligible for a donor heart.

The mother of a baby girl born at 27 weeks says coming home is "the only thing keeping me going".

GPs would use the online calculator to tell women their risk of getting breast cancer, say scientists.

More than a third of women and a quarter of men think they got it wrong, research suggests.

Laura Nuttall had just started university when a routine eye test discovered several brain tumours.

The drug can prolong the lives of incurable breast cancer patients by up to 16 months.

Carers looking after elderly parents and children face depression and stress.

The hospital's first such procedure was carried out on a 44-year-old patient on 14 January 1979.

Landscape painter Denise De Batista is considering legal action against lens manufacturer Oculentis

David Shukman examines the effect that air pollution has on our bodies.

Attitudes are changing to the medical practice, with some calling them limiting and unnecessary.

Ministers hail the UK's "world leading" pollution plan, but green groups call it a missed opportunity.

British Nutrition Foundation launches new 'handy' guide to stop people cooking and eating too much.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has repeated remarks about race and intelligence.

Photographs show piles of clinical waste following the collapse of processing firm HES in North Lanarkshire.

Zoe Buxton is a fashion and lifestyle blogger whose body is slowly turning to bone.