Giving HIV drugs to healthy gay men to prevent them being infected has huge potential to help reverse the epidemic, say scientists.

Transgender people in the UK face "high levels of transphobia" on a daily basis and they have "a long way to go" to achieve equality in the UK, MPs say.

Liberia is to be declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization, effectively putting an end to the world's worst outbreak of the deadly disease.

Talks aimed at avoiding further NHS strikes in England are due to resume later, amid warnings the government could impose its controversial new contract on junior doctors.

The death of a woman just hours after she had given birth by Caesarean section was wholly avoidable, a court hears.

Hospitals in England continue to miss many of their waiting time targets, official figures for November show.

Thousands of nurses were denied permission to work in England last year, despite hospital staff shortages, new figures show.

Medical researchers hope a new tissue bank will give them a clearer insight into pancreatic cancer.