People with autism are dying earlier then the general population, often through epilepsy or suicide, a charity warns.

GPs could spend longer with their patients if physiotherapists worked alongside them at their surgery, says the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Health and education will be squeezed by more than £1bn because of changes to the way public sector pensions are funded, figures seen by the BBC show.

Guinea confirms two new Ebola cases, almost three months after it celebrated the end of the outbreak.

People who contracted hepatitis C through infected blood transfusions in Scotland will get increased financial support, Scottish ministers announce.