Doctors in Edinburgh are offering patients a recording of the hospital appointment at which they are told how serious their cancer is.

Fears are being raised new 5p and 10p coins being introduced into circulation in the UK could cause skin problems.

Planned births at home and in midwifery units are more cost-effective than giving birth in hospital, particularly for women having their second child, says a study.

A couple acquitted of murdering their four-month-old son call for an inquiry into two London hospitals responsible for his care.

A team of physicists at Dundee University design and build a sonic screwdriver which could help in ultrasound surgery.

Professor Michael Esson of the universities of New South Wales and Lincoln, talks about his "Art of Reconstruction" course for plastic surgeons.

Dr Brooke Magnanti, previously known as Belle Du Jour and author of The Sex Myth: Why Everything We're Told is Wrong, and Claire Perry, MP for the Devizes constituency, who commissioned a report for the Independent Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection, discuss our attitude to porn.

Rickets caused by a lack of vitamin D. The disease can cause childrens bones to weaken and easily break