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By Jane ElliottHealth reporter, BBC News

For Colin Corker has experienced the dilemma of organ donation from both sides – his wife’s organs helped four people after her sudden death and five years later his daughter needed her own transplant.
When Christine Corker died aged 43 in 2001 her husband Colin had no hesitation in releasing her [...]

Gordon Brown has promised reforms in the social care system to try to prevent the financial worry of old age.
In his regular Downing Street podcast, the prime minister said people in middle Britain would benefit from "guarantees" over end-of-life care.
Free personal care for the elderly in England is likely to be one of the [...]

Bob HowardThe Donal MacIntyre Show, BBC Radio 5 live

"My mate was taking steroids and he was getting bigger and bigger, and then another friend started them and I felt sort of left out. That’s why I started."
Jack was 18 when he first took steroids and conscious of the perceived benefits of honing a chiselled body. [...]

DNA differences which appear to affect the risk of giving birth early have been found by US scientists.
The US National Institutes of Health study found the variants in both babies and mothers, a US conference was told.
It is thought they may play a role in controlling immune responses which could theoretically trigger labour if [...]

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