Worried parents are putting "extra pressure" on A&E departments, leading doctors and nurses warn.

The European Parliament is set to vote on whether calorie labels should be added to alcoholic beverages.

A ban on gay men giving blood in France may be justified but only if there are no alternatives, the EU's top court says.

Three-quarters of countries do not have plans in place to preserve antimicrobial medicines, the World Health Organization says.

A memoir written by the wife of an art critic who died of a brain tumour wins a £30,000 prize for new books about medicine, health or illness.

North and South America become the first regions to completely eradicate rubella, or German measles, after no cases in five years