Hospitals in England and Wales are being given new guidelines in a bid to improve diagnosis and treatment of blood clots in the legs and lungs.

Carers who give up work to look after the elderly or disabled wipe out around £5.3bn from the economy, the charity Age UK says.

Doctors have reiterated their opposition to assisted dying, at their annual conference.

The biggest killer of teenage girls worldwide is pregnancy, according to a report by the charity Save the Children.

Smokers could one day be immunised against nicotine so they gain no pleasure from the habit, according to researchers in the US.