Many dementia patients being prescribed "chemical cosh" antipsychotic drugs could be better treated with simple painkillers, research says.

Police investigating the deaths of three patients at a hospital in Stockport, where saline solution was deliberately contaminated, say anyone entering the site could now be searched.

Doctors in Norway have found that simple painkillers such as paracetamol may substantially reduce some of the most distressing symptoms of dementia.

Police investigating the suspicious deaths of three hospital patients in Stockport say they are planning to talk to at least eleven other people who may have had their medication tampered with.

A fertility clinic in Hong Kong admits it implanted two embryos into the wrong woman.

A watchdog reports a "systemic failure to protect people" at a hospital where alleged abuse was filmed by BBC's Panorama.

The risk of developing cancer in middle-age has risen by over 20% in a generation, figures from a cancer charity suggest.

One in three people who take time off work admit to lying about their reasons, according to a new report.