The gap between the lifespans of rich and poor people in England and Wales is rising for the first time since the 1870s, research suggests.

A teenager has died after she was believed to have taken ecstasy on a night out, police say.

A US jury court orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $55m (£40m) to a woman who woman who says its talcum powder caused her ovarian cancer.

Google has signed an agreement with the Royal Free London NHS Trust to gain access to data of hundreds of thousands of patients.

A mental health trust admitted failing a man accused of murdering a motorist by stabbing him 39 times on a road in West Sussex, a court is told.

Genes are partly to blame for some dogs getting fat, say scientists who have studied Labrador retrievers.