Doctors should prescribe newer medications rather than aspirin to treat a common heart condition, say new guidelines for the NHS in England and Wales.

The "danger zones" in Asia which are vulnerable to a deadly bird flu have been mapped by scientists.

NHS England faces a funding gap of up to £2bn in its budget for the next financial year, health chiefs tell BBC News.

A 14-month-old boy from Lincolnshire is diagnosed with a chromosome disorder which is so rare that it does not have a name.

Seven people are reported dead from the Ebola virus in Monrovia, the first deaths from the outbreak in the Liberian capital.

A teenager with a nut allergy died after eating a Chinese takeaway containing peanut butter, an inquest hears.

Some 20,000 young people were admitted to hospital in England last year with Crohn's disease, a 300% rise in 10 years, figures suggest.