The government might threaten to stop buying some expensive cancer drugs if the companies that make them do not cut their prices, Newsnight learns.

Three-quarters of cancer patients who are depressed are not getting the psychological therapy they need, researchers say.

A top US public health official says the Ebola outbreak is set to get worse before it gets better, as West African health ministers meet in Ghana.

Prof Philip Lamey, a former professor of dentistry, has lost his case for unfair dismissal brought against Queen's University, Belfast.

The number of complaints made about NHS care in England increased to an average of 480 every day, according to official data.

Nigeria confirms its first Ebola death outside Lagos, a Port Harcourt doctor, as the WHO says the total number of cases could eventually pass 20,000.

A trial vaccine against Ebola could be tested on healthy volunteers in the UK in September, says an international health consortium.

Scientists have tracked the spread of Ebola in West Africa, revealing genetic clues to the course of the outbreak.