Doctors are due to announce later whether they will be taking industrial action over changes to their pensions.

All school children should take part in compulsory body image and self-esteem lessons, MPs recommend, in a major report on British body image.

US research institutes release the world's largest collection of genetic data on childhood cancers in a bid to speed treatment discoveries.

Children as young a five are being referred for treatment for depression and anxiety, a BBC investigation discovers.

Professions such as law, journalism and medicine must do more to widen their intake, the deputy prime minister's social mobility adviser will say.

Washing lungs before they are transplanted could increase the number of organs suitable for donation, according to doctors in Newcastle.

Scottish Opera marks its 50th anniversary with the launch of a choir encouraging people with dementia to share memories through song and dance.

A Norfolk hospital which became an official smoke-free zone seven years ago is to build shelters for smokers who have been flouting the ban.