A number of hospitals in the North of England have removed hand gel from public areas because some patients and visitors are drinking it for its alcoholic content.

Death rates from ovarian cancer in England have fallen by a fifth in a decade, figures reveal.

Poor care for lung cancer patients in the UK is "hindering" the survival of patients, an expert group says.

Being unemployed raises heart attack risk by a similar magnitude to smoking, a study suggests.

Bats may be the source of a new Sars-like virus which killed a man in Saudi Arabia, according to an analysis of the coronavirus' genome.

Clerical staff at three NHS hospitals in West Yorkshire begin a three-day strike in a row over potential job cuts.

Scottish mortality rates among working age men and women have been the worst in Western Europe since the late 1970s, a report says.

A petition against plans to close four accident and emergency departments in north-west London is taken to Downing Street.