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How your behaviour can change your children’s DNA

New research into inheritance shows we can alter family traits for better or for worse. Jonathan Leake reports

Sixth-form girls to get sex-disease cancer jab

As many as 300,000 girls will be given a vaccine against the sexually transmitted disease that causes most cervical cancers

Surgeon bonuses if ops are successful

Imperial College hospital trust is to trial a 'performance-related' pay scheme that will reward the most successful surgeons

Ministers may call time on happy hour

The government is to propose a ban on happy hours in pubs and clubs across Britain as part of plans to tackle binge drinking

NHS spurns gift of free cancer drug

NHS bosses refused to administer a drug to a patient with advanced kidney cancer despite the medicine being provided free

Race for secrets of IVF as Louise Brown turns 30

Fertility treatment has become commonplace but the next challenge is finding ways to improve its poor success rate

Pubs under pressure to reduce sizes

Action against premises that offer the largest measures of wine and spirits as standard will be announced this autumn

The louder the music, the faster you drink

Study in France shows the louder the music in venues, the more swiftly drinkers finish their beer, ordered more – or left

Nurse treated wrong patient at abortion clinic

Ann Downer failed to verify her patient’s identity before administering Misoprostol, used at the final stage of a medical abortion

More young people are saying no to drugs

One in four 11 to 15 year-olds have tried drugs, according to an NHS survey - but the numbers are falling

Anger over choice of cheaper cancer vaccine

A money-saving decision over a cervical cancer drug could leave teenage girls vulnerable to sexually transmitted infection

MRSA rates fall - but other superbugs increase

The decline suggests that high-profile initiatives such as the "deep clean" of all hospitals may have had the desired effect

Scientists make gene link to African HIV epidemic

A genetic variant which is carried by 90 per cent of Africans has been found to raise the risk of infection by 40 per cent

NHS ordered to revolutionise care for the dying

Terminally ill patients are to be given more choice over where they die and encouraged to make their wishes known

Case studies: Death at home from the families' perspective

For many terminally ill people, the wish to die at home is frustrated by a lack of resources and specialist care

'Predatory' nurse targeted women with eating disorders

David Britten, who ran NHS clinic in Westminster, sexually manipulated more than 20 vulnerable women, report says

National strategy will help elderly die at home

£286m 'End-of-Life Care Strategy' should allow people to die, surrounded by loved ones, in the setting they choose

End of Life Care - the key facts

The new 10-year End of Life Care Strategy is launched today. Here are the key points as laid out by the Government

'For teen drivers drink limit should be zero'

Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson has called for a complete ban on drinking and driving for young motorists