Some patients are going to A&E units in the UK more than 50 times a year, a BBC investigation into the issue of repeat visits shows.

Schools should make better use of modern scientific understanding of the brain, says a research project.

Cancer-killing "sticky balls" can whip tumour cells out of the blood and may prevent cancers spreading, early research suggests.

Scientists find some of the earliest evidence for widespread tooth decay in humans in Stone-Age hunter-gatherers, who lived in what is now Morocco more than 13,700 years ago.

A hospital worker faces disciplinary action for tweeting that he would use a patient's body hair to make Bradley Wiggins-style sideburns.

People with minor injuries in Swansea and Bridgend are being advised to stay away from their local A&E departments.

The acting chief executive of a hospital at the centre of a police investigation resigns.

Bedford Hospital leadership is described as "weak" in a report into paediatric training issues which condemns management for its "high tolerance of unsafe practice".