Experts say the UK government may have chosen the least cost-effective vaccine to immunise young teenage girls against viruses that cause cervical cancer.

Women expecting twins or triplets need closer monitoring, including extra scans, according to NHS guidelines for England and Wales.

The Court of Protection will rule later on whether a brain-damaged woman, deemed to be "minimally conscious", should be allowed to die.

As many as 16 people may have died from listeria in contaminated cantaloupes from Colorado, officials say, with other cases elsewhere in the US.

Wilson Greatbatch, the engineer who invented the implantable pacemaker dies in Buffalo, New York , aged 92, with more than 150 patents to his name.

A watchdog calls nursing care "dire" and "abject" in the case of a severely disabled patient, who died of breathing problems in a hospital ward.

The health watchdog NICE is calling for autism to be better diagnosed by getting health professionals to work together.

The hair pins used to secure extravagant Irish dancing wigs may lead to a teenager's hair loss, two Irish doctors have warned.