Doing yoga may be a good way to protect against heart disease, particularly if you cannot do more vigorous exercise, research suggests.

Paramedic teams across the country are being asked to help London Ambulance Service because it is struggling to cope with increased demand.

South of Scotland Lib Dem MSP Jim Hume formally launches a bill at Holyrood to prevent smoking in cars with children in them.

A national review of paediatric first aid training of nursery staff is to take place sparked by the death of a baby at a Greater Manchester nursery.

The medical director of NHS England, Sir Bruce Keogh, says the "system is creaking" as winter begins to take hold.

A care assistant at a nursing home where a dementia patient was scalded in a bath, had not been given any formal training, an inquest hears.

A wine bar is being prosecuted under Health and Safety laws after an 18-year-old woman who drank a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen needed to have her stomach removed.

NHS staff and at-risk people are urged to immediately get flu jabs after an outbreak of the diseases in communities and hospitals across south Wales.