Tributes are paid to prominent assisted suicide campaigner Dr Ann McPherson, who has died from pancreatic cancer.

A deadly E.coli outbreak linked to contaminated cucumbers is expected to affect more people in the coming days, a German scientist says.

A Toronto couple defend their decision to keep secret their baby's sex to allow the child to develop his or her own gender identity.

London's HIV prevention groups say they are "outraged" at a 20% cut to their funding, as the number of Londoners diagnosed with the virus, who acquired the infection in the UK, doubles in the past decade.

A County Down woman believes her baby son may have survived if midwives at the Downe Midwifery led unit had listened to her concerns.

A fatal accident inquiry into a Scottish swine flu death hears the victim was relieved when told by doctors he did not have the virus.

GP Dr Rosemary Leonard explains how people can best avoid catching the E.coli bug linked to cucumbers.

Independent nursing experts are to give evidence to a public inquiry into Scotland's worst Clostridium difficile (C.diff) outbreak.