Diabetes checks should be offered to over-40s in settings ranging from libraries to job centres across England, a health watchdog has said.

Scientists have assembled a "timeline" of the unseen progress of Alzheimer's before symptoms appear.

An Israeli man convicted of arranging kidney transplants for profit has been jailed for two and a half years in New York.

European Jewish and Muslim groups join forces to defend circumcision of young boys after a German court ruled it amounted to bodily harm.

A corporal serving on the front line in Afghanistan tells of the frantic rush he faced to get home in time for the birth of his first child.

The NHS in Wales cannot afford to pay for how it delivers services, but it may not be able to meet the costs of reforming either, auditors warn.

The government puts South London Healthcare NHS Trust into administration after it ran into financial trouble.

The health service regulator in England has found that fourteen NHS abortion clinics broke the rules by allowing doctors to pre-sign forms authorising a woman's termination.