Scientists believe they are a step closer in the difficult journey towards developing a male contraceptive pill, after successful studies in mice.

Why we need to change our ideas on clinical trials

The National Audit Office finds failings in the contract between the government and Atos, the company carrying out fitness-to-work tests.

Doctors in Wales prescribe greater numbers of antidepressants knowing patients face long waits for counselling.

Men dialling for ambulances with hangovers and a woman bitten by her hamster are among a list of "inappropriate" 999 calls putting emergency services under "sustained pressure", the NHS in Wales says.

A boy who has the condition selective mutism, which inhibits his ability to communicate, has been helped by the family cat.

A drug user has died in a Lancashire hospital after being infected with anthrax, the Health Protection Agency says.

A court in the US has again backed a US biotech company's right to patent genes which have been isolated from the human body.