The emotional impact of stroke is too often overlooked and should be given the same priority as physical rehabilitation, campaigners say.

Women may be more vulnerable to smoking-related diseases than men, studies suggest.

The US Food and Drug Administration approves the "morning-after" pill without a prescription for women aged 15 and over.

The NHS is one of the few government departments whose budget is ring-fenced - that is, immune from the budget cuts that ministers are expected to make in order to bring government spending under control.

A report from the Stroke Association suggests that survivors are leaving hospital depressed, stressed and unable to cope emotionally.

A majority of British people who follow a religious faith support the law being changed to allow assisted suicide, research suggests.

The outbreak of a new type of bird flu in China poses a "serious threat" but it is too soon to tell how far it will spread, flu experts have warned.

The new NHS non-emergency 111 telephone service in England is in a fragile state in a number of areas ahead of bank holiday weekend, NHS bosses admit.