Esther Rantzen has launched a free 24-hour dedicated helpline for older people that aims to provide friendship and combat loneliness.

A new method for scanning children's livers for tumours could prevent them being exposed to unnecessary radiation, according to doctors in London.

A BBC investigation finds working conditions at an Amazon warehouse in the UK that an expert in stress says could cause "mental and physical illness".

Heathrow Airport is to open a licensed electronic-cigarette zone, despite a ban on smoking and e-cigarettes in the rest of the airport.

A mass immunisation programme is set to help thousands of children affect by Typhoon Haiyan.

Around 33,000 children are to be immunised against measles and polio in typhoon-hit Tacloban city.

The medical ethicist Julian Savulescu says the current doping rules in sport are not working.

A neurosurgeon who falsely told a woman he had removed her brain tumour at an Aberdeen hospital is struck off for "reckless" misconduct.