The benefits of the cholesterol-reducing drug statins are underestimated and the harms exaggerated, a major review suggests.

Three-quarters of people are unaware being overweight increases the risk of developing 10 different types of cancer, Cancer Research UK says.

The number of drug-related deaths in England and Wales reached record levels last year, figures from the Office for National Statistics show.

Children aged four to 10 are consuming twice as much sugar as they should be and teenagers three times too much, a national survey of diets has found.

A woman who wants to use her dead daughter's frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild is being allowed to take them to the US for treatment.