Too many patients are dying following emergency bowel surgery, experts who have done a comprehensive audit warn.

Mental ill health among young people in Northern Ireland is a serious and growing problem, a new report suggests.

The care given to an elderly woman who had a cardiac arrest and died after a delay in treatment for sepsis was inadequate, an ombudsman finds.

A health insurer is criticised for advising members to use a Facebook-owned activity tracker without making the social network's involvement more clear.

Families speak out for the first time about the "deplorable" care their loved ones received at a Denbighshire mental health ward.

The body of a dead Liberian man tests positive for Ebola - the country's first reported case since it was declared free of the disease.

Cuba has successfully eliminated mother-to-child transmission of both HIV and syphilis, the World Health Organization says.