Any doctor who suspects child abuse must raise the alarm immediately and tell the parents what action they will be taking, new draft guidance says.

The NHS complaints system in England is failing patients and needs an overhaul in order to ensure justice, a committee of MPs says.

Some doctors are set to argue against moves towards an organ donation system of presumed consent, fearing it could damage trust in them.

An international website selling prescription-only medicines has been shut down after a 26-year-old County Down man took his own life by using drugs he had purchased online.

A medical crisis looms in Libya's eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi as hospitals run out of vital supplies, the rebels' health minister tells the BBC.

Rajan Datar looks at whether there are still health risks attached to letting travellers with HIV in or whether is it just intolerance.

Doctors have called on their union to take a tougher stance over the government's shake-up of the NHS in England.

Stuart Matthews: "I'm afraid whiplash associated disorder is something rather nebulous... we have to rely on the veracity of the patient or the claimant."