People with mentally taxing jobs, including lawyers and graphic designers, may end up having better memory in old age, research suggests.

New draft NHS guidelines encourage GPs to diagnose and refer almost twice as many cancer patients in England each year.

The worldwide cost of obesity is about the same as smoking or armed conflict and greater than both alcoholism and climate change, research suggests.

Union leaders are due to decide later whether to accept the first Wales-only pay deal offered to NHS staff.

A hospital is to give so-called "bed blockers" seven days to leave or face possible legal action, saying too many families are refusing to take elderly relatives home when they are fit to go.

Women with job authority are more likely than men to display symptoms of depression, according to research in the US.

Initial results of a controversial scheme offering shopping vouchers to persuade mothers to breastfeed have shown promise, researchers say.

Health watchdog the Care Quality Commission ranks mental health NHS trusts in England in terms of risk of providing poor care.