Drugs used to regulate levels of cholesterol in the blood may also reduce the risk of dangerous blood clots, say researchers.

Treating Parkinson's disease with gene therapy has been shown to be successful in clinical trials for the first time, say US researchers.

Social care is facing a funding gap of more than £1bn by 2014 - a situation which would have consequences for the NHS, a leading think-tank says.

A new hearing aid that transmits sound through a person's teeth has just got a green light to be used in Europe.

The GMC says the fitness to practise of a pathologist criticised over reports into the death of a man at the G20 protests is "impaired".