An English advisory body issues guidance aimed at helping people in South Asian communities stop using smokeless tobacco products like paan.

More dentists need to be checking their patients for mouth cancer, say experts.

People with lower intelligence are more likely to be unhappy than their brighter colleagues, according to UK researchers.

Exclusively on 5 live, the wife of man with locked-in syndrome told Tony Nicklinson's wife he was considering starvation

A review into why one of the UK's biggest NHS trusts, Imperial College Healthcare in London, lost data about patients has blamed "a serious management failure".

Specialist health services such as care for sick newborn babies are spread too thinly and should be concentrated at four or five hospitals in south Wales, say NHS chiefs.

Mice with brittle skin, which tears off to escape predators, may offer clues to healing wounds without scars, according to US researchers.