A team at Newcastle University is developing new technology - including a "Granny-Nav" - aimed at helping older drivers stay on the road.

The Care Quality Commission is being criticised for failing to close a care home, after undercover filming showed an 80-year-old woman being slapped by a care worker.

Drinking milk, eating horseradish and gargling with garlic are just some things people have used to try and stop snoring. But do they work?

A "miniature honeycomb" - or scaffold - could one day be used to encourage nerves to grow in order to repair damage, according to an international group of researchers.

The great variation in life expectancy among pensioners has been highlighted in a new study by the actuarial firm Towers Watson.

Two people remain in hospital in Fort William after thirteen were treated for the effects of taking what have been described as illicit drugs.

Doctors treating Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb say they have been "confounded" by his recovery since he woke from a coma at a hospital in London.

The gap between male and female life expectancy is closing and men could catch up by 2030, according to an adviser for the Office for National Statistics.