An independent report recommends a raft of new checks and measures for healthcare assistants in the wake of Mid Staffs.

Air pollution is harming and killing people with weak hearts, experts warn.

Scientists have discovered a new truth behind big muscles, turning 50 years of knowledge on its head.

Complaints that foreign-trained doctors are suffering from discrimination in NHS exams to become GPs are being investigated by the General Medical Council.

Nearly £500,000 was spent by the health board at the centre of the measles epidemic around Swansea to deal with the outbreak, it is revealed.

A controversial abortion bill goes to the final vote in the lower house of the Irish parliament.

A BBC investigation hears calls for tighter controls to prevent children consuming high-caffeine energy drinks.

A councillor who said disabled children should be "put down" resigns from Cornwall Council for a second time.