Having a bad cold or the flu can have a detrimental affect on a driver’s responses, an insurance firm has claimed.

The government has said not all doctors will have their working week cut to 48 hours in August as planned.

NHS advisers in England and Wales reach a cost-sharing deal with a drug firm to allow use of a bone marrow cancer drug.

Stem-cell transplants may control and even reverse multiple sclerosis symptoms if done early in the disease, a study suggests.

Derby’s new super-hospital makes a chaplain available following reports of a ghostly figure in the building.

Women who drink too much water during labour are at greater risk of a potentially dangerous condition, say scientists.

A Californian woman who gave birth to octuplets this week already has six children, according to US media reports.

More than 60,000 Zimbabweans have been infected by cholera, a figure the WHO had called a “worst case scenario”.

Asian children should have more sex education than others, according to one of the UK’s major sex clinics.

A doctor in Nepal warns a group of cricketers heading to Mount Everest to play a high altitude Twenty20 match not to exert themselves too much.