The new hospital inspection regime for England is getting under way, with the chief inspector promising to "expose poor and mediocre" care.

Changes to the way hospitals in England are inspected which will see longer, more thorough checks carried out by bigger teams, are under way.

Going on a health kick reverses ageing at the cellular level, claim US researchers who have been studying people's DNA.

A flu vaccination programme at schools in Leicestershire is criticised after it is discovered the vaccine contains pork gelatine.

When Professor Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with Motor Neurone disease aged 21, doctors gave him just three years to live.

Teaching assistants help one of their colleagues to give birth at a Chigwell school.

UK cosmologist Prof Stephen Hawking has publicly said he backs the notion of assisted suicide for people with terminal illnesses.

The number of children in Scotland with the digestive disorder, coeliac disease, may have reached record levels, researchers say.