A blood test could help people choose which stop-smoking strategy would give them the best chance of quitting, research in the Lancet suggests.

The higher premature death rate in one of the most deprived areas of the country is to be targeted by a new £300,000 programme.

A hospital in south Wales chains toys to children's beds in a bid to prevent them being stolen.

UK nurse Pauline Cafferkey is "showing signs of improvement" and is no longer critically ill with Ebola, London's Royal Free Hospital says.

Twenty-five different cancer treatments will no longer be funded by the NHS in England, health chiefs have announced.

Dozens of patients whose 999 calls were downgraded by an ambulance emergency centre later died, a report reveals.

NHS England has issued a cold weather alert for the next seven days, warning the public that services could be disrupted and asking vulnerable patients to take extra care.