Urgent changes must be made to the way A&E units are run - or the system could collapse, doctors and managers say.

Labour peer Lord Falconer will table a private members bill that will seek to legalise assisted suicide for the terminally ill.

The NHS in England has been told to push for a rapid rise in dementia diagnosis rates.

Scientists in India unveil a new low-cost vaccine against a diarrhoea virus that kills about half a million children around the world each year.

Women live longer than men partly because their immune systems age more slowly, a study suggests.

Young children reject storybook characters who are overweight, research reveals.

Katharine Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury's daughter, has spoken to the BBC about the depression she has suffered since her teens.

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast are devising a new drug which is being hailed as a potential "magic bullet" in the treatment of Acute Lung Injury (ALI).