Government measures to reduce the sale of cheap alcohol have been criticised by health researchers.

Younger bowel cancer patients should be offered a genetic test to screen for a rare condition linked to a higher risk of cancer, say UK researchers.

Councils in England and Wales are being overwhelmed with requests to ensure the human rights of vulnerable people are not being abused.

A man who travelled from Liberia nearly two weeks ago is the first confirmed case of the deadly Ebola virus diagnosed on American soil.

Pilot triage clinics are being funded to help tackle the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, UK officials say.

David Cameron will vow to protect the NHS in England from cuts for five years in his closing speech to the Tory conference.

Ambulance staff and other health workers in the GMB union have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay.

Children have come into contact with the first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola on US soil and are being monitored, the Texas governor says.