Labour calls on the government to hold an urgent summit on how to alleviate pressure on A&E services in English hospitals.

A trial of a potential drug to treat Ebola has started at a Medecins Sans Frontieres centre in Liberia.

The government has "betrayed patients", Labour leader Ed Miliband says, as the political row over the problems facing A&E units deepens

The UK's first private medical school opens this term with students paying fees four times more than in public universities.

The decades-long drought in the search for new antibiotics to tackle drug-resistant infections could be over, after a breakthrough by US scientists.

Labour MP Bill Esterson says pregnant women should not drink "at all" to avoid any potential damage to their unborn child.

Two drug companies have attacked a decision to remove their treatments from a special fund designed to give access to new therapies in England.