The problem of mental illness in the UK is the "biggest unaddressed health challenge of our age", Labour leader Ed Miliband is to say in a speech later.

There are fresh fears for the safety of some of the vulnerable patients moved from a Bristol care home which closed down after a BBC investigation.

Women who give up smoking by the age of 30 will almost completely reduce the risks of dying young from tobacco-related diseases, according to a study published in the Lancet.

Doctors in Hull have saved the life of a pregnant woman and her baby with a pioneering treatment that uses fibre from seaweed.

Questions have been raised about the treatment of patients who were moved from the Winterbourne View private hospital after being abused.

Many sunbed salons are flouting laws introduced a year ago to protect the public from the risks of skin cancer, a BBC Wales investigation finds.

Health minister Norman Lamb says there is "no excuse" for the mistreatment of care home patients, as Panorama reports on continuing failures in the system.

A financially-troubled NHS trust should be broken up, leading to a radical overhaul in services across south east London, an administrator says.