New evidence links the environment in the womb with increased body weight in later life.

Children as young as 10 are more familiar with some alcohol brands and adverts than those for popular foods and snacks, research shows.

There has been "inadequate" progress in getting the food industry to adopt healthier practices, campaigners say.

Spanish doctors say they have successfully operated the lung of a foetus for the first time.

Along with training to deal with other road emergencies, traffic police officers in Bangkok are also taught how to deliver babies.

Rucksacks loaded with school books have been linked to higher levels of back pain in a study of Spanish school children.

A patient dies unnoticed on a trolley in the emergency department of one of Northern Ireland's busiest hospitals.

The first woman in Scotland to graduate in medicine will be honoured later in her home town in Bothwell, South Lanarkshire.