Prof Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, outlines her fears about the "commercialisation of childbirth"

The review into the PIP breast implant scandal is looking at introducing an insurance scheme to help protect future cosmetic surgery patients, the man leading the review tells the BBC.

Babies who grow rapidly in the first three months of life may be more likely to develop asthma as children, say researchers.

Three babies die at the Royal's Maternity Neonatal Unit in Belfast after an outbreak of an infection called Pseudomonas.

A proposal to bring in Army medics to cover a shortage of doctors at hospital emergency departments is criticised by MPs.

A mother from Northamptonshire has met a paramedic to thank him for saving her week-old baby daughter's life.

Johnson & Johnson settles for $158m (£102m) over allegations a subsidiary defrauded the Texas Medicaid programme by illegally marketing an anti-psychotic.

Staff at the Royal Hospital neo-natal unit in Belfast are trying to find the source of the bacterial infection linked to the deaths of three babies.