Exposure to a once widely used pesticide, DDT, may increase the chances of developing Alzheimer's disease, suggest US researchers.

Children with crooked backs could benefit from a new treatment that uses magnetic rods to straighten the spine, say draft guidelines for England.

Newsbeat speaks to two teenagers who had very different experiences of sex education at school.

The Met Police is struggling to provide adequate medical staffing to assess and treat detainees in their custody, according to a new report.

The BBC's Tom Feilden and Cancer Research UK's Peter Johnson discuss The Institute of Cancer Research's new Centre for Evolution and Cancer.

Hong Kong begins culling 20,000 chickens after the H7N9 bird flu virus was found in poultry imported from mainland China.

A survey of women who gave birth last year found a third of them said they were not always treated with kindness in hospital after the birth.

The number of people in England being detained under the Mental Health Act has risen by 12% in the past five years, according to the NHS regulator.