Doctors and nurses should receive special training to recognise the signs of domestic violence and ask questions, says the health watchdog.

Doctors have devised a new way to treat amputees with phantom limb pain.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will announce later whether he is accepting a recommendation to close the trust that runs the scandal-hit Stafford Hospital.

Surgeons in Wales say they are still looking for answers over what is being done about heart patients dying while waiting for operations.

Proposals to either scrap or boost the role of the seven local health boards in Wales are launched by Plaid Cymru.

Uganda's minister of health says homosexuals will not be discriminated against when they require healthcare, despite a new anti-gay law.

The obesity rate among young US children fell by 43% since 2003-2004, the first broad decline in years, according to a new study.

More than twice the number of women than men needed hospital treatment because of their waistline, figures for England show.