Comedians, like many other creative types, have personality types linked with psychosis, researchers claim.

The prevalence of gout - traditionally associated with too much port and an unhealthy lifestyle - is actually soaring, figures show.

Surgeons in Oxford improve the vision of six patients who would otherwise have become blind using a gene therapy technique.

Injuries to the head can leave damage that lasts a lifetime and increases the risk of dying young, a major analysis shows.

Is it wrong to send elderly relatives to care homes abroad?

Increased checks breed 'furtive behaviour'

Up to a fifth of the NHS's work does not benefit patients and could cause them harm, says the health minister before announcing plans for "prudent" health care changes.

Over two thirds of all contracts for NHS services in England have been awarded to external suppliers since April 2013, according to a report by the NHS Support Federation.