Proposals to stop children getting body piercings without their parents' permission are to be announced by the Welsh government.

A former Devon taxi driver's body is mummified in a project to test the processes used 3,000 years ago.

The NHS in England is still failing to deal with complaints properly, with some GPs removing complainants from their patient lists, the ombudsman says.

Better use of information technology in England's hospitals could help prevent 16,000 deaths a year, a report says

A vaccine against one of the world's biggest killers of children - malaria - has moved a step closer.

Some 16,000 deaths a year in England could be prevented by using advanced information technology in NHS hospitals, a report says.

A type of bacterium known to cause dental decay and skin ulcers has been linked to bowel cancer.

There has been a fall of nearly 20% in the number of deaths from malaria worldwide in the past decade, the World Health Organization says.