Nick van Gorden explains why he volunteered to be bitten by infected mosquitoes as part of a trial for a vaccine for the deadliest strain of malaria.

Kirsty, a single mother suffering from bi-polar disorder, describes how her eight-year-old daughter helps her survive on a day-to-day basis.

People who are exposed regularly to others' tobacco smoke are at greater risk of hearing loss, experts discover.

Hospitals say they are seeing increasing numbers of women asking to have their second baby by Caesarian, because they cannot get over the trauma of the first birth. Lucy Joelin from the Birth Trauma Association described her experience of having a baby as one of "pain, indignity and terror".

Greater choice and more help for carers will be at the heart of the government's plans for social care which will be unveiled later.

The head of the Royal College of Midwives has said she fears for the future of midwifery because of tight budgets in the face of a high birth rate.

Doctors in Glasgow break new medical ground by injecting stem cells into the brain of a stroke patient in a trial to find a potential new treatment.

The daughter of a dead Sellafield worker hopes an inquiry into the removal of body parts will hold those responsible to account.