Medical students from the US have brought together a number of medical mobile phone applications to create a 10 minute physical examination, including and ultrasound scan and heart rate monitor.

Insufficient midwife supervision is blamed for failings which led to the deaths of three babies and a mother at a hospital.

Medication used to treat stomach ulcers may cause vitamin B12 deficiency, a study finds.

Uruguay's parliament votes to legalise the cultivation, sale and consumption of marijuana - the first country to do so.

The health minister defends hospital procedures after a specialist surgeon was suspended following the deaths of patients who had undergone liver surgery.

The UK will aim to double funding for dementia research by 2025 from the £66m target for 2015, the prime minister says.

Plans to downgrade the A&E department in one of the three general hospitals in north Wales are being considered, BBC Wales has learned.

The number of obese and overweight children in the final year of primary school in England has fallen for the first time in six years.