A 15x10 cm hairball has been removed from a woman with 'Rapunzel syndrome'.

Doctors are warning of the dangers of giving children complementary therapies after a four-year-old boy ended up in A&E after taking holistic supplements.

A health authority is to deny operations to the obese and smokers for six months as a cost-cutting move.

The former head of troubled Southern Health NHS trust, who was controversially moved to a new post in the organisation, has quit following months of pressure.

Marie Stopes International has resumed pregnancy terminations seven weeks after they were suspended because of "serious concerns" about patient safety.