Children's exposure to air traffic pollution could increase their risk of insulin resistance, which can lead to diabetes in adults, suggests a study in Diabetologia.

Researchers have found a bacterial infection that could help control malaria by making mosquitoes resistant to the parasite.

A culture of poor care is like a cancer: it will keep on spreading if it is not stopped, Robert Francis, the barrister who chaired the public inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal, has warned.

A man once labelled the world's fattest undresses for candid photographs as a warning to others about obesity,

The NHS in Scotland must adopt a "radically different approach" to how it deals with medical mistakes, an expert warns.

A voluntary hygiene rating scheme for tattoo studios in Wales, the first of its kind in the UK, is set to be introduced next year.

GlaxoSmithKline launches a new partnership with Save the Children to develop medicines to tackle child mortality in Africa.

A teenager who was diagnosed with autism and told he would never be able to read has been tipped as a future Nobel prize winner.