Pressure is mounting on the NHS watchdog to name senior managers involved in a cover-up over the deaths of as many as 16 babies.

After taking part, 80 per cent of the children said they continued to use the techniques

Lydia and her husband were childhood sweethearts and in August they will have their second baby. It will be a boy, the doctors say, and the happy couple will call him Majd. A beaming Lydia is clearly delighted.

Uncooked curry leaves in a chutney left more than 400 people who ate at a street food festival with diarrhoea and vomiting or salmonella poisoning, health officials have found.

New chairman of the Care Quality Commission says that his organisation is still “not fully set up” to inspect hospitals

Ministers will consider a ban on the use of face-down restraint in English mental health hospitals after new figures that show nearly 40,000 incidents of physical restraint were recorded in just one year.

Experts say it is time to close the gap between treatment of physical and mental illnesses

Health officials in Mumbai are investigating reports that the Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan and his wife know the sex of a baby they are having through a surrogate mother.

Raising consumption by more than half a serving a day was associated with a 48% increase in risk over the next four years

Fabricated research was not discovered until Edward Erin tried to poison his girlfriend

Cancer Research figures show oesophageal cancer has doubled in the last 30 years

Drinking a small glass of wine every day while pregnant may do no harm to the brain development of babies in the womb, a new study suggests.

The majority of doctors, nurses and front line health workers were not vaccinated against flu last winter, official figures have revealed.

Researchers at University of Exeter found he is one of just eight people in world to suffer from MDP syndrome

Hospitals, care homes and GPs could be judged against a new set of patient rights following a radical overhaul of standards to be announced by the health watchdog.