As UK experts call for universal HIV testing in a bid to reduce infections, latest figures reveal a fifth offered the test refuse to have it.

Frequently heading a football can lead to brain injury, warn doctors who say they have found evidence on brain scans.

The Food Standards Agency finds that most British-grown oysters it tested contains the winter vomiting bug, norovirus.

A mother suspected to have contracted an E. coli strain at a maternity unit where two premature babies died did not pick up the bug at the hospital.

Doctors say they have found a medical test that can diagnose the most common curable cause of high blood pressure.

A severely-disabled man from Wiltshire is asking the High Court to allow his doctor to end his life "lawfully".

A severely-disabled man is asking the High Court to allow his doctor to end his life "lawfully", challenging legislation on murder and so-called mercy killing.

Psychiatrists assessing self-confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik conclude he is a paranoid schizophrenic and should be treated as such.