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GPs should offer more blood tests to diagnose ovarian cancer earlier, according to new guidelines for the NHS.

The NHS could save £400m a year if a blood flow monitor, developed in the UK, was used more during surgery, health watchdog NICE says.

Millions of pounds is lost in England by the failure of the NHS to provide more obesity operations, a study says.

The number of people in England undergoing surgery on the NHS to help them lose weight has increased ten-fold in less than a decade, figures show.

Campaigners have condemned a decision not to fund a bowel cancer drug for use by the NHS.

Hundreds of lives could be saved by the NHS using more kidneys for transplant from donors whose hearts have stopped, experts say.

A firm providing out-of-hours care in an area where a pensioner died after a painkiller overdose had "systematic" failings, the NHS regulator says.

The NHS should stop funding homeopathy and it should no longer be marketed as a medicine in pharmacies, doctors say.

When a consulting firm hired by the British government recommended job cuts to help save money in the National Health Service, politicians rushed to reject the report.

Is there a way to make socialized health care cost effective without losing votes?

Opponents of Obama's health-care reform plans have been using Britain's National Health Service to warn against the dangers of socialized medicine.

But how does the NHS really work -- and how well?