An advance in gene therapy may provide safe treatment to children with a fatal genetic disorder that leads to no functioning immune system.

Advances in bionic hands have restored a sense of touch to two patients for more than a year, report US scientists.

Increasing numbers of paramedics are leaving NHS ambulance services, with senior staff saying crews are under greater pressure to meet demand.

The chief inspector of adult social care at the Care Quality Commission tells the BBC "too much awful care" is happening in England.

New rules will allow electronic cigarettes to be shown in UK TV adverts from November, the Committee of Advertising Practice says.

Public Health Wales is investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A in three children from Cardiff.

The public health challenge posed by West Africa's Ebola outbreak is unlike anything since the emergence of HIV/Aids, a top US medical official says.

Surgeons at the Royal Liverpool Hospital have carried out a kidney transplant using keyhole surgery, the first time such an operation has been performed in Europe