US doctors have carried out what they say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed, by giving a man a new jaw, teeth and tongue.

The power of the human brain is celebrated in a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection

Playing music to patients while they go under the knife reduces their anxiety and may even improve healing, surgeons say.

The world's largest research databank for cleft lip and palate is being set up in the UK.

The stance taken in England on replacing PIP breast implants - at the centre of a health scare - "flies in the face of common sense", MPs say.

CEO of Greggs, Ken McMeiken speaking on the BBC's Newsnight about the removal of VAT exemption for pasties, pies and other hot food said he feared job losses.

A brain tumour expert at Queen's University calls for more funding for research into the cancer.

A Supreme Court ruling could allow thousands of insurance claims by families of people who died after exposure to asbestos.