Exercise throughout a person's life can play a significant role in reducing the risk of dementia, a study spanning 35 years finds.

Playing 'active' computer games can help people with type 2 diabetes better control their blood sugar, a medical trial finds.

A fifth of patients on an intravenous drip develop complications because they are given the wrong levels of fluid, according to a review of guidance in England and Wales.

Ketamine should be upgraded from a Class C drug to Class B after new evidence revealed the damage it can have on the bladder, government advisers are to say.

Health boards across the country must learn lessons from failings at Wales' largest health board, assembly members are warning.

Changes are needed to improve the treatment of laboratory animals at one of the UK's leading animal research centres, a panel of experts concludes.

The founder of French company PIP, which distributed defective breast implants, is sentenced to four years in prison for fraud.

An elderly man dies 12 days after he was attacked in a hospital bed by a dementia patient wielding a bottle.