A girl aged 10 has started eating and drinking for the first time after overcoming an unexplained aversion to food.
Reaction speed is an indicator of how long a person is likely to live, scientists have claimed.
Patients are to be given the chance to rate and review their GPs on an NHS website, the Government will announce this week.
Ambulance staff were unable to save a mother-of-two who died from a heart attack after a simple trip to the dentist went tragically wrong, an inquest was told.
A drug that boosts the effectiveness of chemotherapy is offering new hope to sufferers of skin cancer, a new study claims.
The Prince of Wales has sent a message of condolence to the family of Peter and Penelope Duff, the wealthy British couple who ended their lives together at a voluntary euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.
The head of a children's hospital which was criticised by its own doctors has resigned ahead of the findings of an investigation.
Ministers are to be stripped of the power to decide which vaccinations should be given to children in a move which has been condemned as "undemocratic" by campaigners.
Forty guests gathered shortly before Christmas for an intimate drinks party in an elegant Georgian townhouse overlooking the city of Bath.
The guests, mostly from the philanthropic side of the local arts world, thought that their elderly hosts, Peter and Penelope Duff, were saying thank you after another successful year sponsoring concerts and music festivals in the city. In fact, they were saying goodbye.
When Marjorie Lambert began fostering children 20 years ago, all she wanted was to give young people “a taste of something better”.
Her husband had spent much of his childhood in residential care. Mrs Lambert, now 61, had known in her youth a family who ran a children’s home. “It was something we both knew a bit about. Our children were grown up, we had the space and we wanted to help,” she said.
Almost one in three GP practices are not offering longer opening hours, a year after a deal was stuck between doctors and ministers.
The gloomy economic climate is causing a surge in cases of 'recession depression' a private clinic has reported.
One million patients a year are put at risk by hospital blunders and near misses, official figures have revealed.
A millionaire couple from Bath have become only the second British man and wife to commit suicide together at the controversial Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.
The Dignitas assisted suicide clinic has challenged Britain euthanasia's laws to the core from a nondescript industrial estate outside Zurich in Switzerland.
Dignitas claims around 100 Britons have travelled to its clinic to take their own lives. Here are the most notable cases:
Violent scenes in cartoons like Scooby Doo and Pokemon can be just as damaging to children as "grown up" programmes, researchers have found.
A businessman who was "fanatical" about his physical appearance killed himself when a facelift operation went wrong, an inquest heard yesterday.
Mobile phones belonging to health care staff tested positive for the hospital superbug MRSA, researchers said.
Men who do three hours of gardening a week in their 50s live two years longer than their sedentary counterparts, research has found.