Ensuring you get enough exercise in midlife will help protect your heart, study findings suggest.

An eight-year-old girl dies at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow after contracting E. coli 0157.

A new study casts doubt on the finding from recent genome studies that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred.

Views are being sought by Stormont on people's experience of the government's fitness-to-work benefit assessments.

Disability rights pioneer and Labour peer Lord Morris of Manchester dies at the age of 84.

Older people miss out on help needed after a hospital stay because of confusion about what services councils should provide, a charity says.

The number of prescriptions for treating diabetes has, for the first time, topped 40 million in England alone, latest figures show.