The top Republican in Congress calls for a law against a contraceptive rule if President Obama does not back down in the face of Catholic leaders' anger.

An 86-year-old woman who lives yards from a hospital in Essex waits nearly two hours for an ambulance to arrive at her house.

A Welsh assembly inquiry into neonatal hospital services hears about the need for improvements in the care of premature and sick babies in Wales.

War Horse star Jeremy Irvine met the Duchess of Cornwall when she talked to diabetes patients at Addenbrooke's Hospital.

IVF clinics have been told that no more than 10% of births should be twins or triplets by regulators.

Three members of staff from a private hospital near Bristol, featured in a Panorama programme, plead guilty to the ill treatment of residents.

Destructive plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients have been rapidly cleared by researchers testing a cancer drug on mice.

Sir Steve Redgrave visited St Paul's Way Trust School in Tower Hamlets to launch the Wellcome Trust's 'In the Zone' initiative to bring hands-on science experiments into all UK schools ahead of the Olympics.