An hour's "brisk exercise" each day offsets the risks of early death linked to a desk-bound working life, scientists suggest.

A new class of antibiotics has been discovered by analysing the bacterial warfare taking place up people's noses, scientists report.

A hospital losing £75 a minute is to close a ward and axe 350 full time posts, an NHS trust reveals.

The earliest evidence of cancer in the human fossil record has been discovered in South Africa, say researchers.

A woman died from the untreated side effects of the combined contraceptive pill, a coroner concludes.