Irregular sleeping patterns are "unequivocally" shown to lead to cancer in tests on mice, a study suggests.

The way hospitals discharge patients is probably contributing to high levels of readmission, a year-long Healthwatch England inquiry finds.

Ambulance trusts in England are paying staff to appeal against thousands of speeding fines, despite 98% being blue light emergencies.

Scientists at Cardiff University are using DNA testing by robots to help identify infections in cystic fibrosis patients more quickly and accurately.

A study says that surgical robots were involved in operations that resulted in at least 144 deaths over a 14-year period in the US.

Transplanting cells into livers has the potential to regenerate them, say scientists.

New proposals have been put forward in an effort to resolve a long-running row about the congenital heart surgery in England.

Surgeons in Manchester have performed the world's first bionic eye implant in a patient with the most common cause of sight loss in the developed world.