Money worries and the distractions of social media mean people are having sex less frequently, researchers suggest.

Taking up exercise in your 60s helps stave off major ill health and dementia, a study suggests.

A review of all hospitals in Wales to address "public anxiety" about standards of care is being urged by the Royal College of Surgeons.

"Shocking" sexual violence is being carried out by children against other children as young as 11, according to an official report.

There was a big rise in the number of winter deaths last year, official figures for England and Wales show.

A mass vaccination programme is getting underway in the Philippines to immunise 33,000 children affected by Typhoon Haiyan.

A US company offering genetic testing to the public has been told it must stop selling the kits immediately.

Pharmacy giant Boots recalls tens of thousands of bottles of cough and cold medicines over fears that plastic might have got into the liquid.