Far fewer patients who have surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm now die on the operating table, figures show.

The possibility that autism is linked to traffic pollution has been raised by researchers in California.

Dr Joseph Murray, who performed the world's first successful human organ transplant, dies at 93 in the Boston hospital where he changed medicine.

The BBC has been given exclusive access to a course where the Samaritans are training rail staff to help save lives.

The chief executive of the NHS in Wales appears before a committee of AMs to answer questions over the service's finances.

A four-week-old baby "bled to death" after a home circumcision carried out by a nurse, a court hears.

The government has announced an inquiry into how the Liverpool Care Pathway is working.

Patients needing aftercare following a weight loss procedure at a private clinic which went into administration are told the NHS will treat them.