A hormone released during childbirth and sex could be used as a treatment for the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, scientists suggest.

Adult social care in England is under increasing pressure and the government has "no idea" how long the system can cope, an inquiry finds.

The government is due to announce later whether NHS staff, civil servants and forces personnel will get a pay rise in the next financial year.

Vulnerable adults are being kept virtual prisoners in care homes because of misuse of mental health laws, a House of Lords committee says.

Drugs taken to lower the risk of heart attacks and stroke may have fewer side-effects than claimed, say researchers.

A report has confirmed that the centre is safe but has revealed how 16 families were shown a lack of compassion and care in the way they were treated at Leeds General Infirmary.

Anne-Marie Cockburn, the mother of 15-year-old Martha Fernback who died after taking ecstasy, has pledged to work with the dealer who supplied her to increase awareness of drug abuse.

A widow's legal battle to keep dead husband's frozen sperm is finally over after the fertility regulator said it would not take the case back to the courts.