The UK fertility regulator is seeking to reduce the taboo around egg and sperm donation by encouraging altruistic donation.

The number of people dying from cancer of the womb - known as uterine cancer - has increased by more than 15% in the past decade, according to the charity Cancer Research UK.

Urgent checks of abortion clinics ordered by the health secretary last month cost £1m and meant hundreds of other inspections were cancelled, it emerges.

Health Minister Edwin Poots is to question the chief executive and chair of the Belfast Trust about an interim report on the pseudomonas outbreak.

The number of women dying from cancer of the womb, known as uterine cancer, has increased by nearly 18% in the past decade, according to Cancer Research UK.

Eye specialists at Glasgow Caledonian University develop a video game to treat a common sight problem.

Claire Callaghan from Liverpool went into labour when she was at home alone and phoned the emergency services for help.

The public interest in publishing a risk assessment of the NHS overhaul in England is "very high, if not exceptional", a tribunal rules.