Energy drinks packed with caffeine can change the way the heart beats, caution researchers.

An MP is to raise the case of a woman who he says had her baby forcibly removed by Caesarean section, and taken by social services in Essex.

One in five cyclists in London say they have stopped cycling to work after a recent spate of deaths, a poll for BBC London finds.

Mothers and fathers will be able to share up to a year of parental leave by April 2015, but one business group calls the plan a "nightmare".

More than 100 people in Australia and New Zealand who suffered birth defects caused by the drug Thalidomide win $81m (£49m) compensation.

A report into how UK aid money was corruptly spent was watered down and another delayed by a major global health fund, Panorama learns.

A doctor who blew the whistle on unsafe practices during the Baby P abuse scandal has said Northern Ireland, like England, needs an independent health regulator.

The family of a disabled man who died after a routine operation say they are still waiting to be told what went wrong, seven months after his death.