The rise in popularity of e-cigarettes in the UK appears to be helping more smokers successfully quit smoking, say researchers.

A doctor quits after feeling obliged to advise a couple to bring their baby's remains home in a cooler bag following an abortion in England.

Memory loss is not an inevitable part of ageing, say scientists who are studying a unique group of people in their 60s and 70s who have "super sharp" minds.

Several people in Northern Ireland have been diagnosed with the Zika virus, it emerges.

Patient care is being harmed by failures in a records-management service run for the NHS in England by Capita, doctors' leaders have said.

A Scots nurse who survived Ebola is cleared of misconduct charges by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.