Taking daily iron supplements during pregnancy can reduce the risk of having a small baby and becoming anaemic, says research from Harvard University.

The extra risk of dying for people with diabetes has fallen sharply since the mid-1990s, a study suggests.

All humans might make use of echolocation

The current bosses of an NHS regulator are set to be summoned by MPs to discuss an alleged cover-up over the deaths of babies at a Cumbria hospital.

The standard of inspections by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is not good enough, the health secretary has said.

The Today programme's correspondent Mike Thomson hears from Amanda Pollard, a former CQC Inspector, who became a whistleblower after concerns about what was happening at Mid Staffordshire Hospital.

"Unnecessary deaths" from kidney condition

Allegations that drug companies offered to collude with chemists to overcharge the NHS for certain drugs are "appalling", the health secretary says.