Researchers say offering financial incentives worth £400 to pregnant smokers makes them more likely to quit the habit.

More than a million adults in the UK may be wrongly diagnosed as asthmatic and be receiving unnecessary medication as a result, warns an NHS watchdog.

The BBC has launched an online guide about how the care system for the over-65s works and how much services cost.

The world is "dangerously unprepared" for future pandemics like the deadly Ebola outbreak, the president of the World Bank warns.

Guidance issued to NHS hospitals in the West Midlands over when they can call "major incidents" sparks a political row between the Conservatives and Labour.

A drug costing millions of pounds per patient has been given the green light for use on the NHS by the medicines watchdog NICE.

Spending on care for people aged 65 and over has fallen by a fifth in England over the last 10 years, an analysis by the BBC shows.

A planned strike by some ambulance workers and other NHS staff in Northern Ireland is set to go ahead on Thursday.