One dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the 1960s.

Hospital consultants should consider working weekends to cut the spike in deaths on Saturdays and Sundays, a doctors' leader says.

Measures as simple as getting patients to write down the time of their doctor's appointment themselves can cut non-attendance rates, a study suggests.

Coca-Cola and Pepsi alter their fizzy drink recipe to avoid putting a cancer warning label on the bottle, in compliance with a California law.

Edwin Poots launches a 10-year strategy to tackle obesity in Northern Ireland.

A man suspected of hacking in to the website of one of Britain's main abortion providers, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, is questioned by police.

Ministers have been ordered to publish a risk assessment of its NHS shake-up under Freedom of Information laws.

A 20-year-old mother from Carmarthenshire died after taking too much paracetamol, an inquest has heard.