A scientist who admitted helping his mother to die is given a five-month home detention sentence by a court in New Zealand.

Reading Shakespeare could give physicians a fresh insight into the links between emotion and illness, a retired doctor and scholar believes.

Scientists have used brain scans to shed more light on how the brain deals with the memory of unpleasant or traumatic events during sleep.

The arm of a 12-year-old girl that was severed by a train at a level crossing on Tyneside is reattached by surgeons.

A major review of the health service in NI is likely to recommend that GPs' surgeries should provide more services.

An investigation is under way at an Australian hospital after staff treating a woman carrying twin boys accidentally terminated the wrong foetus.

Mental health charities tell the BBC they fear Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, designed to protect the vulnerable, are "not fit for purpose".

Northern Ireland's health service is bracing itself for what is described as a "tsunami" of obesity-related diseases which it cannot afford to treat.