More people in high risk groups should be screened for breast cancer risk genes, say British researchers.

Dementia sufferers are not getting the care they need because the condition is not recognised as a terminal illness, two leading charities claim.

After one season of playing American football, some teenagers appear to show changes in their brains even when they did not suffer concussion, a small study suggests.

The UN's Ebola mission chief in West Africa tells the BBC that there is still a "huge risk" that the deadly virus could spread to other countries.

Around £65m to £78m in extra funding will be given to Wales by the UK government after the chancellor makes his Autumn Statement.

Northern Ireland has had the largest proportional increase in new cases of HIV in the UK since the year 2000.

A paedophile doctor who abused young cancer patients at Addenbrooke's Hospital is jailed for 22 years.

The World Health Organization says the goals it set itself for treatment and safe burials in West Africa's Ebola outbreak have largely been met.