About 20,000 children are 'at risk' from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) every year in the year in the UK. Sue Lloyd Roberts investigates why despite being illegal for many years it still goes on.

Severely obese children are putting their heart at danger even while they are still in primary school, according to a Dutch study.

Physios and podiatrists in England are to get the right to prescribe medicines by themselves under government plans.

Rita Cronin, the mother of Kane Gorny, a patient who died from dehydration while a patient in hospital, says "everybody along the way could have saved his life".

A research charity has launched an animated film aimed at encouraging debate about the surge of women seeking "designer vaginas".

A race to unlock genetic clues behind living to 100 will begin next year, with a US team announcing its intention to compete for the $10m genetics X Prize.

Four times as many people in their 50s in Wales are now diagnosed with the worst form of skin cancer, compared with 30 years ago.

People living in Wales and England are the least happy in the UK, according to the first national wellbeing survey.