An independent inquiry is being launched to check the safety of donor blood amid concerns about an infection risk from the human form of "mad cow disease".

The prospect of a "male pill" that would let men enjoy a full sex life with no chance of getting a woman pregnant has moved a step closer.

The "love hormone" oxytocin alters the brain activity of children with autism and makes them more social, according to US researchers.

Poorer countries should consider adopting or raising tobacco taxes to help save lives, a group of leading economists says.

Sheep could hold the key to an effective treatment against a drug-resistant super bug, according to a Welsh biotech company.

Hong Kong confirms its first case of the new strain of the H7N9 bird flu in a domestic worker from Indonesia, who officials say is in critical condition.

One of the UK's largest specialist heart and lung hospitals is to move to a new £165m building on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Concerns over the number of people waiting to be discharged from hospital to care homes in the north east of Scotland are to be highlighted.