Doctors will stop providing non-urgent care for a day next month in the first industrial action by the profession for nearly 40 years.

Doctors have reassured patients safety will not be at risk during a day of planned industrial action in June - the profession's first strike for nearly 40 years.

Alcohol sensors should be in every car to cut drink-related road deaths and injuries, says the government's former chief drugs advisor.

The number of newly diagnosed cases of gonorrhoea in England soared by 25% in 2011 amid fears that the sexual infection is becoming untreatable.

Long waits in A&E units in England have started rising "steeply", hitting their highest level for seven years, an analysis suggests.

Doctors in London are trialling "touchless" gaming technology to help them carry out delicate surgery.

Around 4600 lives could be saved in England by reducing alcohol intake to just half a unit a day, say experts.

Should addiction be treated as a disease? Former Alcoholics Anonymous member and Daily Telegraph writer Damian Thompson who has written a new book on the subject debates the issue with Colin Blakemore, professor of neuroscience at Oxford University.