Leading plastic surgeon Dr Bryan Mendelson talks to Louisa Peacock about the pursuit of beauty and what leads women to having cosmetic surgery.     ...

A major shake-up for specialist hospital services, including A&E, will be announced later by five health boards in south Wales. ...

(Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc said it has entered into a $5 billion share repurchase agreement with Goldman Sachs Group Inc, as the drug giant looks to prop up shareholder value in face of stiff competition from makers of l ...

(Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc said it has entered into a $5 billion share repurchase agreement with Goldman Sachs Group Inc, as the drug giant looks to prop up shareholder value in face of stiff competition from makers of l ...

(Reuters) - Amag Pharmaceuticals Inc said its marketing partner in Switzerland, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, is recalling a batch of Amag's anemia drug, Rienso, because of a death and several cases of hypersensitivity. ...

Mild iodine deficiency during pregnancy could be dimming the intellect of some babies born in the UK, say researchers who studied 1,000 families. ...

Women who are pregnant or planning to have children should ensure they consume the right amount of iodine or risk their child having a low IQ, according to researchers.     ...

(Reuters) - Amag Pharmaceuticals Inc said its marketing partner in Switzerland, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, is recalling a batch of Amag's anemia drug, Rienso, because of a death and several cases of hypersensitivity. ...

Supplies of anti-flu drug had to be thrown away because "shocking incompetence" meant it was unclear if it had been kept refrigerated.     ...

A German out-of-hours GP put the life of unborn baby at risk by failing to spot complications as he worked "dangerous" 13 hour shifts for a month straight, a tribunal heard.     ...

The NHS chief executive has announced his early retirement in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal after admitting that the health service "can still sometimes fail patients".     ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adult drivers who usually get less than six hours of sleep per night are more likely to crash than those who sleep in, according to a new study from Australia. ...

The trend for barefoot running could lead to injuries in some runners, a small study suggests. ...

A German out-of-hours GP put the life of unborn baby at risk by failing to spot complications as he worked "dangerous" 13 hour shifts for a month straight, a tribunal heard.     ...

Telegraph View: Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, must be brave, bold and radical in appointing Sir David Nicholson's successor at the NHS     ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People will choose larger portions of food if they are labeled as being "healthier," even if they have the same number of calories, according to a new study. ...

Immigrant mothers from China, the Philippines and Australia give birth to fewer female babies than is considered normal but there is "insufficient" evidence of sex-selective abortion in Britain, a Government study has fo ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study has confirmed that removing the tonsils and adenoids of children with obstructive sleep apnea can reduce sleepiness and improve the quality of life, but putting off the surgery mig ...

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has accused the government of "dangerous complacency" over the growing problems in Accident and Emergency departments.     ...

The NHS chief executive has announced his early retirement in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal after admitting that the health service "can still sometimes fail patients".     ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The H7N9 bird flu outbreak in China has caused economic losses of more than $6.5 billion so far, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's chief veterinary officer said on Tuesday. ...

Michael Deacon watches Jeremy Hunt answer - in his own inimitable way - an Urgent Question about the A&E crisis.     ...

Tunis (Reuters) - A 66-year-old Tunisian man has died from new coronavirus, a strain of a virus that emerged in the Middle East last year, after a visit to Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Tuesday. ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teens who have a classmate die of suicide are more likely to consider taking, or attempt to take, their own lives, according to a new study. ...

Novelist Iain Banks has posted an update to his fans, saying he has revived his love of fast cars and is considering chemotherapy following his cancer diagnosis.     ...

The NHS chief executive has announced his early retirement in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal after admitting that the health service "can still sometimes fail patients".     ...

Many hospital emergency departments have dropped the Government's four-hour target to deal with patients because of soaring demand, MPs have heard.     ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The importance of health literacy hit home for Lisa Gualtieri when a Cambodian refugee diagnosed with cancer asked her to act as a patient advocate. ...

A man has died of the novel coronavirus (NCoV) in Tunisia, in what is believed to be the first such case in Africa. ...

The head of the NHS in England Sir David Nicholson is stepping down from the post next year. ...

The government squandered taxpayers' money on a drug to treat flu, a public spending watchdog says. ...

Travellers can have life-long immunity from a single yellow fever vaccination, the World Health Organisation has said.     ...

(Reuters) - AcelRX Pharmaceuticals Inc said its experimental drug device to treat post-operative pain met the main goal of controlling pain in a late-stage study among patients who had undergone knee or hip replacement s ...

(Reuters) - A new type of asthma drug meant to attack the underlying causes of the respiratory disease slashed episodes by 87 percent in a mid-stage trial, making it a potential game changer for patients with moderate to ...

Conjoined twin girls, who shared a liver and were joined at the abdomen, are expected to make a full recovery after Peruvian doctors separated them.     ...

Premature birth may interrupt vital brain development processes, medical scans reveal. ...

A&E units are on a cliff edge, say NHS leaders as MPs start an inquiry into the state of emergency care. ...

The High Court in London is judging whether a pregnant woman with bipolar disorder has the mental capacity to request an abortion. ...

An Essex hospital is criticised by a health watchdog for "missing opportunities" to save the life of a woman with disabilities. ...

A new inspector will monitor the treatment patients receive from their GP as part of plans by Jeremy Hunt to improve primary care.     ...

Women live longer than men partly because their immune systems age more slowly, a study suggests. ...

A new inspector will monitor the care patients receive from their GP, as part of plans by Jeremy Hunt to improve primary care.     ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's Intercell said on Tuesday it has won U.S. regulatory approval for pediatric use of its Ixiaro vaccine to protect against Japanese Encephalitis (JE), a step it had achieved in Europe in Februa ...

One of the most concerning classes of hospital 'superbug' is not being tracked by the Department of Health, it is revealed. ...

Ministers have been told they must go further with their overhaul of social care in England by merging its budget with the NHS. ...

A woman has part of her jaw rebuilt with a bicycle-style chain after cancer had "eaten away" at her face. ...

The amount of alcohol sold in Scottish shops has fallen by 2.6% in the year since multi-buy promotions were banned, research suggests. ...

A baby was left deaf and blind because a trainee midwife did not recognise signs of jaundice within days of his birth, a health trust admits. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the White House already reeling from three major controversies, some Republican lawmakers are zeroing in on what they perceive is another possible scandal tied to President Barack Obama's land ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nearly 13,000 healthcare employees at five University of California medical centers plan to strike on Tuesday in a move that threatens to back up emergency rooms and already has forced the postp ...

Sharing a bed with your newborn baby increases the risk of cot death fivefold, research suggests. ...

A chief inspector of GPs is to be appointed as part of a push to improve services outside of hospitals, ministers are set to announce. ...

Parents should never allow babies to sleep in bed alongside them due to the risk of cot death, according to research which has prompted the Government to order an "urgent" review into official guidance.    ...

The lives of hospital patients who are put on a drip are being placed at risk by poor attention by staff to intravenous fluid care, experts warn. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British farmers will be the first in Europe to get a vaccine against Schmallenberg virus, a new livestock disease that hit the continent in 2011. ...

More than 15,000 people die every year because of cancer treatments rather than the illness itself, Lord Saatchi has said.     ...

(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc, which has been on a hot streak with three recent approvals of cancer drugs, stumbled on Monday, saying it was halting a late-stage trial of a drug for aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma after indepen ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older men with other illnesses may not live long enough to benefit from aggressive prostate cancer treatments, such as prostate removal or radiation, and they'd have to live with their side ef ...

(Reuters) - Farms in two of the nation's leading pork producing states have tested positive for the potentially fatal porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), U.S. pork industry veterinarian official said Monday. ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The importance of health literacy hit home for Lisa Gualtieri when a Cambodian refugee diagnosed with cancer asked her to act as a patient advocate. ...