More than 140 families voice fresh concerns about how the NHS ombudsman in England handles patients' complaints, week after a report raised the alarm.

A third of NHS contracts in England have been awarded to private sector firms since the Health and Social Care Act came into force, a probe finds.

The Ebola virus that has killed thousands in West Africa is still “running ahead” of efforts to contain it, says the World Health Organization head.

Half of women in England are now regularly taking prescription drugs, according to the comprehensive Health Survey for England.

A £200m online patient-record system has been "fraught with problems" and medics' concerns have been "seemingly overlooked", senior consultants claim.

A group of HIV-positive women in Kenya takes legal action against the government, accusing it of arranging for them to be forcibly sterilised.

The NHS would be "in dire straits" without migrant workers, one of the UK's senior economists Stephen Nickell tells MPs.