Taking vitamin D supplements in addition to asthma medication appears to reduce the risk of severe asthma attacks, a review of evidence suggests.

Doctors should offer overweight patients "green space" prescriptions to get them exercising outdoors, says the Local Government Association.

Scientists have successfully used a gene-editing tool called Crispr to stunt tumour growth in mice.

Designers at London Fashion Week should show at least two sample sizes, one of which must be a UK size 12 or above, the Women's Equality Party (WEP) says.

Two judges are asked to leave a Swedish panel that picks the Nobel prize for medicine in a scandal over a disgraced Italian transplant surgeon.

Men and women returning from any area where the Zika is circulating should practice safe sex for at least six months to avoid the risk of spreading the disease, says the World Health Organization.

The first-ever person to receive a face transplant, Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire, dies of cancer 11 years after her pioneering surgery.