Ministers are considering a ban on face-down restraint in English mental hospitals as figures show the technique is being widely used.

Mental health services in England could be banned from using face-down restraint, and many are training their staff to resolve issues without physical intervention.

A new consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling is to be introduced in the UK, the government says.

An open letter published in the Lancet medical journal calls for hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay detainees to receive independent medical care.

Five organisations receive coroner's letters highlighting the "disturbing" death of a woman after paramedics were called to a care home.

England's healthcare regulator may have covered up knowledge of its own failings after a series of baby deaths at a Cumbria hospital, a report says.

Some breast cancer sufferers could be treated with radiotherapy instead of more invasive surgery after a Europe-wide study involving Cardiff doctors.

Mental health services in England could be banned from using face-down restraint and many are training their staff to resolve issues without physical intervention.