The number of complaints made to the General Medical Council about doctors has risen 23% in the past year, the regulator says.

Research suggests middle age starts much later than previously thought - at age 55.

Cancer support and information is offered in libraries across Glasgow in what is thought to be the first project of its kind in the UK.

How the drug ecstasy or MDMA could help treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

European countries need to rethink strategies for end of life care due to the ageing population, according to researchers in the Netherlands.

Campaigners trying to save a hospital in Flintshire from closure are to march to a health board consultation meeting later.

Two Swedish women may be able to bear children using the wombs which carried them, doctors say, hailing the world's first mother-daughter uterus transplants.

The Health Protection Agency issues a warning about the dangers of picking poisonous mushrooms.