Independent experts are reassuring women a common type of surgery for urinary incontinence is safe and effective.

A children's ward at a West Lothian hospital is to close to in-patients over the summer because of staff shortages.

Industry body Oil and Gas UK is advising companies not to allow e-cigarettes to be used offshore.

Cases of lung cancer in women have reached 20,000 a year in the UK for the first time since records began.

The health insurer Vitality promises to be "clearer" about the fact an app it promotes is owned by Facebook, following complaints by privacy groups.

Caffeine supplements branded as diet pills should be better regulated, a pharmaceutical body says following a man's death after taking the tablets.

Two more cases of Ebola are confirmed in the Liberian village where a teenager died on Sunday - the first case for seven weeks.

Packets of prescription medication will display how much their contents have cost taxpayers, under government plans.