Reuters - Women and girls who've had an unplanned pregnancy in the past are at risk of future unplanned pregnancies, regardless of other risk factors like age and education, a new study shows.

Reuters - Many women may not be fully aware of the potential consequences of waiting until later in life to have a baby, a UK study suggests.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Damage to the arteries of children of smokers can be detected in the early decades of their lives, a new Dutch study finds.

This model has no navel. Why the lack of tummy button?

Parents of children whose organs were removed at Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital have until May to reclaim their body parts.

The makers of the anti-impotence drug Viagra have withdrawn an application for the medicine to be available without a prescription.

Help pounding Big Apple pavements

Surgery teams in many NHS hospitals are not ready for a possible limit on their working week, a survey finds.

Title: New Scan Spots Beginning of Bone Problems in AnorexicsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 11/20/2008 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 11/20/2008

How the RNID tests new devices for the hearing impaired

A flagship NHS reform aimed at developing more innovative community services has delivered little, a report says.

Almost two in five people who drink to excess lie to their doctor about how much alcohol they really consume, says a survey.

Rapid drug treatment of babies with HIV dramatically cuts their risk of death and debilitating disease, research shows.

Reuters - Women who smoke during pregnancy may cause permanent blood vessel damage in their children that may become evident as early as young adulthood and raise the risk for heart attack and stroke, Dutch investigators reported today.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Testing for 18 different gene variations associated with type 2 diabetes was no better at predicting a person's risk for the blood sugar disease than a doctor's assessment, researchers report.

AFP - The European Patent Office on Wednesday restored on appeal a controversial patent for a breast cancer gene that had been withdrawn from a US biotech firm, but granting it in a more restricted form than before.

Reuters - Pregnant women are more willing to accept potential risks of delivering their baby vaginally than are the medical professionals caring for them, Australian researchers report.

A teacher tells an anthrax death inquiry she had not "thought deeply" about the risks of importing drums.

A doctor accused of failing to spot Baby P's injuries during an examination says she has been "deeply affected" by his death.

How airline almost stopped windpipe transplant