The solution used to preserve some donor organs could be contaminated with bacteria the government says.

A man who helped his terminally ill wife to die has broken his silence about his arrest and the 15 months he spent on police bail.

The UK Biobank, the most comprehensive health study in the UK, is opening its doors to researchers on Friday.

The Care Quality Commission - England's health and social care regulator - still has a "long way to go" before it is up to scratch, MPs say.

Doctors will vote on industrial action in May, if talks over planned changes to their pensions do not resume, the British Medical Association says.

Obesity is fuelling a major increased in the number of cases of kidney cancers diagnosed in Britain each year, experts say.

British children are losing contact with nature at a "dramatic" rate and their health and education are suffering, says a National Trust report.

A health trust chief executive who dealt with a complaint about a patient's treatment failed to declare she was married to a surgeon involved, a watchdog finds.