Half of all UK seven-year-olds do not get enough exercise and girls are far less active than boys, a study suggests.

An expert group set up to review the use of methadone to treat heroin addicts in Scotland is to publish its recommendations.

More than half Dartmoor Rescue Group's emergency call-outs now involve searches for missing people who have dementia or other mental health conditions.

The number of deaths from two hospital infections, MRSA and Clostridium difficile, have continued their long-term downward trend, according to figures for England and Wales.

The Mers coronavirus has been detected in a bat in Saudi Arabia, close to the home of the first victim, scientists report.

The government is to appeal against a High Court ruling over a decision to cut services at a London hospital.