American writer Steve Silberman wins the £20,000 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for his book about the history of autism.

Brain training - playing online games that challenge memory and reasoning - is beneficial for the over-50s, a large scale study concludes.

Professional footballers have worryingly poor teeth that could be affecting their performance on the pitch, say dentists.

More needs to be done to tackle a dual threat of patients having both tuberculosis and diabetes, global health experts say.

A baby dies at Scotland's newest children's hospital campus after becoming infected with harmful bacteria that has also affected five other infants.