A ground-breaking research centre to enable medical techniques employed on the battlefield to be used on NHS patients has opened.

GPs face losing control of managing the flu vaccine programme after supply problems this winter, the head of immunisation warns.

A Philadelphia doctor performed thousands of illegal late-term abortions and murdered infants after inducing labour, prosecutors charge.

The charges some elderly people must pay for council carers to come into their homes have risen sharply.

A mother who says she may put her disabled child into care criticises Prime Minister David Cameron on respite care provision.

Patient trials of a new drug for skin cancer have shown that the drug slows the spread of skin cancer in half of all patients with advanced malignant melanoma.

A ground-breaking research centre to enable medical techniques employed on the battlefield to be used on NHS patients has opened in Birmingham.

Hospitals in England have been sent a warning about mixed-sex accommodation ahead of a new fining system being brought in later this year.