An increasing number of young people with mental health problems in England are being treated on adult psychiatric wards, it emerges.

A drug can restore the ability of the eye to sense light after blindness, animal studies show.

Tackling malaria in Africa has had "great successes" but the world must "not take the foot off the gas", Wellcome Trust medical researchers warn.

A nurse who worked at a County Antrim nursing home is found guilty of failing to investigate allegations of abuse against five residents.

Persistently high death rates in Welsh hospitals should be investigated, the medical director of the English NHS suggests to his Welsh counterpart.

The biggest ever stem-cell trial involving heart attack patients, to see if death rates can be cut and tissue damage repaired, is under way in London.