Cancer experts have welcomed a move that makes a drug for patients with advanced skin cancer available in the UK.

Hospital vending machines in England contain too many high-calorie snacks, and guidelines should be introduced to make them healthier, says a cancer charity.

The organisers of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow say the event will be entirely "smoke-free".

Horizon looks at some of the ways we can check up on our own health.

Experimental drugs already used to treat breast cancer may also treat lung cancer, research reveals.

Accident and emergency departments miss a key waiting time target again but are closer to hitting it, latest figures show.

Bribes are routinely paid by foreign pharmaceutical firms in China to boost product sales, the BBC learns, as Beijing widens an inquiry into drugs-price fixing.

A surgeon who lied about removing a patient's brain tumour at an Aberdeen hospital is found guilty of misleading and dishonest conduct.