Meningitis B vaccination for all newborn babies starts to take place across the UK.

Thousands of pounds of NHS personal health budgets are being spent on "treats", including holidays, clothes and pedalo hire, an investigation finds.

A new method of applying insecticide to nets has proved 100% effective against certain resistant mosquitoes, an international study reports.

The national sperm bank hopes a recruitment drive will boost the number of donors after it emerges only nine men are registered a year after it opened.

People who sleep six hours a night or less are more likely to catch a cold when exposed to the virus, a novel human experiment finds.

The venom of a wasp native to Brazil could be used as a weapon to fight cancer, scientists believe.

A woman who died on Saturday in northern Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, officials have confirmed.