Successful solo pop and rock artists are about twice as likely to die early compared to those in bands, the journal BMJ Open reports.

Eating meals as a family improves children's eating habits - even if it only happens once or twice a week, research has found.

All older cancer patients should get physical and mental health tests to ensure they are not unfairly written off as too old for treatment, a report suggests.

Cigarette packs sold in the EU will have to have bigger health warnings in text and pictures, under new proposals from the EU Commission.

Prosecutions for attacks on NHS staff in Wales jump as a Christmas campaign warns revellers against abusing workers.

An operation on a seven-year-old boy at the centre of a legal dispute over cancer treatment went well, a High Court judge is told.

An £80 million grant is to be paid to the surviving Thalidomide victims in England over the next 10 years, the government announced today.

An investigation by BBC Radio 4's You and Yours has uncovered illegal HIV home testing kits available online