One NHS hospital is about to experience a new kind of management, run by a social enterprise, an approach that could be tried with other struggling hospitals.

A group of 40 charities says the government's planned health bill for England must be changed to give a voice to the most vulnerable patients.

Conservative MPs are organising to oppose changes that Deputy PM Nick Clegg wants to make to the government's NHS overhaul, the BBC learns.

Health experts are urging parents to get their children vaccinated against measles, after a tenfold rise in cases in England and Wales.

The Health Protection Agency has recorded more than 300 cases so far this year. Officials are also warning families about a big outbreak in Europe.

Children who get less sleep at night are more likely to become overweight, according to researchers in New Zealand.

Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan asks whether we are all in denial about how much we drink.

The animal research laboratory at the centre of an outbreak of foot and mouth has been told it must do more to improve safety following two incidents earlier this year.