Teaching children to use their hands when doing maths is a good way to improve understanding, research suggests.

Scientists say they have new evidence that autism begins in the womb with changes in the early development of the brain.

Councils in England are using public health budgets to fund other services, an investigation for the British Medical Journal suggests.

Healthcare students at a London university try using an "age simulation suit" - which creates many of the conditions older people have to contend with every day.

Being overweight is increasingly seen as the norm, England's chief medical officer says.

The World Health Organization says 80% of the world is now polio free.

Two people in England develop tuberculosis after contact with a domestic cat, Public Health England has announced.

Hospitals in England have a fraction of the number of doctors on site at weekends as they do during the week, figures obtained by the BBC suggest.