Experts say the health risks of obesity have been underestimated because we are not measuring the condition adequately by ignoring how long people remain overweight.

Awareness about bowel cancer is still "stubbornly low" despite it being the second biggest cause of cancer deaths in the UK, a study suggests.

Many people are unaware of the signs and symptoms of bowel cancer and do not know how lifestyle factors can contribute to risk, according to research.

NHS Lanarkshire closes one of its hospitals to new admissions following a outbreak of C. difficile.

NHS spending on locum and agency doctors in Wales rises 22% in a year as some health authorities find it hard to recruit junior doctors, despite a pledge to cut such spending.

More than 100 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer every day in the UK but awareness of symptoms is poor.

Louise Bazalgette, who works for the Commission on Assisted Dying and a researcher at Demos, and Professor Jonathan Waxman of Imperial College London debate why there appears to be a "frenzy of interest" about suicide.

The number of deaths linked to MRSA has fallen again - and is now a quarter of what it was four years ago, according to official figures.