It is a source of "national shame" that as many as 800,000 people in England are "chronically lonely", Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is to say.

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Cognitive behavioural therapy is more effective than standard care for people who have health anxiety or hypochondria, say researchers writing in The Lancet.

Housework and DIY are not strenuous enough to count towards people's activity targets, a paper has found.

The gap between rich and poor is leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths in Scotland, health experts say.

An inquest into the unexplained deaths of 19 people at a care home near Crawley in West Sussex has heard how patients were not fed or given proper medication.

Institutionalised abuse took place at Orchid View, the Crawley care home that saw 19 unexplained deaths, a coroner says.