Eating fried food is not bad for the heart, as long as you use olive or sunflower oil to make it, experts suspect.

Ticks that can transmit Lyme disease may be more prevalent in the UK than realised, say researchers who have found out how many pet dogs harbour them.

A woman in northern Afghanistan gives birth to sextuplets, despite being unaware she was carrying more than one child.

Some London hospitals have written off more than 90% of what they are owed by foreign patients not entitled to free NHS care, BBC London learns.

Actors working in the pornographic film industry in Los Angeles will be required to use condoms, under a new law signed by the city mayor.

The chief scientific adviser to the charity Alzheimer's Research UK says more experts are needed to work on understanding the causes of dementia.

Labour leader Ed Miliband calls for the government's NHS overhaul to be scrapped - but Prime Minister David Cameron defends the plans.

Putting genetic testing at the heart of the NHS could herald a "revolution" in diagnosing, treating and preventing disease, according to the government's genetics adviser.