Efforts to redirect patients away from busy A&E departments will not work, say doctors, as a new study shows most need to be seen there.

Pets can harbour the hospital superbug MRSA and share it with their owners, but health risks are very low, research suggests.

Tesco says it is to stop selling sweets and chocolates at all its checkouts in an effort to help customers make healthier choices.

The family of man who was killed with a lethal dose of a painkiller by a German doctor said they are "astonished" he will not be extradited to the UK.

Dr Clifford Mann and Professor Keith Willett debate new estimates of the number of A&E patients that could be treated in the community

Plans to shake-up cardiac services at four district hospitals in mid and west Wales will be discussed later following a critical review by a panel of UK leading heart specialists.

Calls to charge patients for GP visits in the UK have been rejected by family doctors at the British Medical Association's annual conference.

A nurse at Royal Liverpool University Hospital shows the BBC the improvements that her department has made to the dementia ward.