Estimates that half the UK population will be obese by 2050 "underestimate" the problem, a report by health campaigners claims.

India marks three years since its last case of polio was reported, in a landmark seen as confirmation of one of its biggest public health successes.

Police in Essex have had to take patients to hospital when ambulances fail to show up more than 180 times in the past year, it emerges.

Problems in hospital A&E units are to be raised at the Northern Ireland Assembly by the SDLP, after the party said there was a "deepening crisis".

Junior doctors who decide to work in Wales could get their student debts paid off under proposals unveiled by Plaid Cymru.

A second hospital in southern Scotland stops admissions to a ward for the elderly after an outbreak of the norovirus.

Charities warn lives are being put at risk as not enough is being done to spot the early signs of mental health problems.

Nine women in Sweden have received womb transplants from living relatives in a pioneering trial.