Patients are facing hours of waiting in ambulances outside A&E departments, BBC figures show - with one case revealing an almost six-and-a-half hour delay.

A campaign urging people with a persistent cough to get checked by their doctor has led to a "dramatic rise" in lung cancer diagnoses, campaigner say.

People in their 40s have the highest rates of hospital admission for drug and alcohol abuse in England, a review says.

Up to 100,000 people in Saudi Arabia are to have their genetic codes mapped by 2017.

The health minister is expected to announce his plans for the future of children's heart surgery in Belfast to the assembly.

A drug which is being trialled by doctors in Cardiff could give new hope to patients with the most common adult leukaemia.

A UUP politician who spent 16 hours lying on a hospital trolley waiting for a bed describes the situation in two of Belfast's A&E units as "pandemonium".

Personal-genetics company 23andMe says it is "not going anywhere", after the Food and Drug Administration ordered it to stop marketing-spit testing kits.