Mental health problems have overtaken conditions such as back pain as the main reason for claiming incapacity benefit, say researchers.

Homosexual men are more likely to have had cancer than straight men, a US study suggests, although reasons for the higher incidence are unclear.

The leader of the Royal College of GPs, Dr Clare Gerada, has said the coalition government must rethink plans to extend competition from private companies.

The Royal College of GPs says the government needs to rewrite a key part of its Health Bill which encourages greater competition.

Today correspondent Tom Feilden reports from Broadmoor

Why do so many girls love the colour pink and how much do parents and society fuel the attraction?

Obese pregnant women are to be given a drug to reduce the risk of obesity in their children as part of an NHS trial.

A Peterborough hospital is the first in the country to offer ante-natal classes for fathers-to-be.