Standards of care at 14 hospital trusts with the worst death rates in England are to be laid bare in an official report later.

Drug checking services help consumers to work out the purity of their drugs

How the NHS could learn a thing or two from coffee shops

Obesity may be a risk factor for the frail bone disease osteoporosis, a study suggests.

Most of the former patients at a private hospital near Bristol, where abuse was exposed, have been moved to community-based homes or flats, the BBC learns.

The number of people hospitalised in Scotland for mental health problems differs significantly between ethnic groups, researchers find.

Scheduled operations were postponed and hospital waiting lists allowed to grow as the NHS in Wales struggled to cut costs in the last year, says a financial watchdog.

The number of animal experiments carried out in the UK rose by 8% in 2012, according to Home Office figures.