The UK is in line to become the first country to allow the creation of babies using DNA from three people, after the government backed the IVF technique.

"Unnecessary deaths" from kidney condition

Research into the genetic risks for asthma could lead to a test which predicts which children will never grow out of it, says a study in The Lancet.

The first wave of new performance data for individual surgeons in England is being published in what is being hailed as a historic moment for the NHS.

A leading expert on hospital mortality data would not choose to send his child to the Leeds children's heart unit because of its death rates, he tells the BBC.

A health watchdog says care for people who self-harm isn't good enough.

A system which directly cools patients' brains after they suffer a cardiac arrest is being trialled by the South East Coast Ambulance Service.

Councils would have to provide home help or residential care for people with "substantial" needs in England under new rules, but campaigners say the level is set too high.