Comedian Russell Brand tells the BBC he predicts much of the world will have de-criminalised all drugs within the next two decades.

Having the central heating on may be contributing to our ballooning waistlines, Dutch researchers suggest.

A study has suggested the outcomes for patients who have a heart attack in the UK are worse than those in Sweden, which has a comparable health service.

Waiting time information for non-emergency operations such as knee and hip replacements in England is unreliable, a watchdog says.

Home Secretary Theresa May is banning a herb called khat, a stimulant chewed by large sections of the Somali community and grown mainly in East Africa.

A hospital where four-year-old Sean Turner died after heart surgery "missed opportunities" but did not fail in its basic care, a coroner says.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, is using the World Economic Forum to highlight the issue of stress in the workplace.

A surge in cases of the deadly new strain of bird flu in China is being reported.