A third of people with asthma are at a high risk of having a potentially fatal asthma attack, research based on an online test reveals.

Stroke survivors are being denied the chance to make the best recovery because of a lack of post-hospital care in the UK, a report suggests.

The number of US babies born with symptoms of opiate withdrawal increased threefold between 2000 and 2009, new research shows.

A 59-year-old former soldier finds out he has lived with a broken neck for more than 40 years since a rugby injury when he was a teenager.

Learning a second language can boost brain power, scientists believe.

The parents of a three-day-old girl who turned blue after she stopped breathing praise a phone operator and paramedics for saving her life.

The Welsh government prepares a publicity offensive to explain its plans for the NHS after a report sets out the case for centralised services.

A genetic test could help predict breast cancer many years and even decades before the disease is diagnosed, research suggests.