Guidelines for children's heart and breathing rates are inaccurate and not based on evidence, according to researchers.

Hugh Grant is backing a website which allows people to share videos of how they have coped with illness to be expanded to include a section on pancreatic cancer.

Experts issue guidance to prevent unnecessary deaths from gastric bleeding, a common medical emergency affecting around 30,000 people a year in the UK.

More than 170 companies - including the leading supermarkets - sign up to the "responsibility deal" to encourage healthier lifestyles.

Doctors' leaders are to hold an emergency meeting to discuss toughening their opposition to the planned overhaul of the NHS in England.

Food industry should aid public health policy, says PepsiCo UK head

Government reforms of the NHS will not tackle the growing demand from dementia sufferers, a study analysing London services shows.

Bone marrow transplant centres across Europe are being asked to be on standby to treat Japanese radiation victims should the need arise.