Using both types of polio vaccine could speed up efforts to free the world of the crippling and potentially fatal disease, research suggests.

Failing doctors could be forced to apologise to patients under measures being considered by the medical regulator.

More people are suffering from malnutrition as a result of worsening food poverty, health experts warn.

A priest says the family of a Donegal man, suspected to have died from the Ebola virus, first heard of any possible link to the disease through the media.

The NHS is to rapidly expand the number of physician associates, who take histories of patients, examine them and make simple diagnoses.

The outbreak of salmonella in England is likely to have come from a single source of eggs, according to Public Health England.

The UK medicines watchdog is setting up a review to look at the safety of alteplase, a clot-busting drug often used to treat strokes.