Campaigners and ministers are hoping a government-hosted summit on dementia research will help boost industry's waning interest in the condition.

Women who take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may cut their risk of heart problems, suggests a study in the journal BMJ, but experts are still cautious about long-term safety risks.

Experts around the globe call for a joint effort to tackle the world's leading cause of suffering and disability - mental health disorders.

Surgeons remove a bullet from the head of a teenage girl who had campaigned for girls' rights, a day after she was shot by the Pakistani Taliban.

Shoppers will be able to see the hidden damage caused by sunbed use when an ultraviolet skin scanner tours retail centres later this month.

Hundreds of people are dying unnecessarily in Welsh hospitals from blood clots because some doctors are "routinely ignoring" guidelines, AMs claim.

Having more MRI scanners would speed up diagnosis for MS patients, according to doctors.

The famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro is bathed in pink lights to mark Breast Cancer Awareness month