A British woman is told by doctors she is the first person in the world to have a pancreas transplant because of a severe needle phobia.

Researchers in the US urge the World Health Organisation to take urgent action over the zika virus, linked to shrunken brains in unborn children

Older people in need of urgent help are being failed by the NHS in England, according to a group of health leaders.

NHS patients in Wales wait longer for treatment and diagnosis than patients in England for most of the main categories, BBC Wales can reveal.

Health officials battling the Zika virus in Brazil say as many as 100,000 people could have been infected in one city alone.

The World Health Organization has set up a Zika "emergency team" after the "explosive" spread of the virus.

A doctor and hospital trust are cleared of the manslaughter of a woman who died following a Caesarean birth after a landmark trial collapsed.

Strains of the HIV virus are becoming resistant to an antiretroviral drug commonly used to prevent and fight it, research suggests.