Governments have spent - and in some cases wasted - billions of dollars trying drag hospitals into the Internet era. But perhaps hospitals are better left to their own devices.

More research is needed into a controversial fertility treatment, known as three-parent IVF, before it can be considered safe, a review says.

A drug to treat an advanced form of kidney cancer should not be made available on the NHS in England and Wales, an advisory body says.

Low levels of sunlight coupled with a viral infection could increase the risk of developing multiple sclerosis, say researchers in England.

The man assessing choice and competition in the coalition government's health bill review has denied it is a PR exercise.

The Malaysian government is to list students' body mass index on school report cards as part of a campaign against obseity.

The number of people treated in hospital after violent injury fell in England and Wales in 2010, an annual and authoritative study says.

Violent crime is continuing to fall in England and Wales according to a new study.