Drinking by children has halved in the past decade, an NHS study has found.

An NHS trust has set up an advertising agency to sell billboard space around its hospitals and on its website.

Shadow Health Secretary calls for rethink amid concerns over patient safety

World silver medallist Hannah England faces an uphill battle to compete at the Olympic trials after suffering an Achilles injury.

Staff who helped their hospital win a national award are said to be "insulted" after they were thanked with a free Kit Kat bar worth 60p.

Barcelona defender Eric Abidal could return to play football again after his liver transplant, the surgeon who carried out the operation has said.

The number of diagnoses of the sexual transmitted infection gonorrhoea has increased by an “unprecedented” 25 per cent in the past year, the Health Protection Agency has revealed.

Patients have been warned to expect delays in treatment and disruption in hospitals as Britain's doctors voted to go on strike for the first time in nearly 40 years.

He signed the Sex Pistols, invented megastores, founded an airline, introduced tilting trains and is planning to send fare-paying passengers into space. Now, Richard Branson, lizard king of the shape-shifting Virgin brand, has revealed his latest product... a £300 tap.

A gunman has killed five people in a shooting spree before turning the gun on himself, authorities in Seattle said today.

Britain is to buy up to £20 million of Malawian currency to help stabilise the African state's economy following a major devaluation, it has been revealed.

First it was civil servants, then teachers, and now doctors. The list of public sector professions taking industrial action grows only longer. Given the parlous state of government finances, and the sharp squeeze on private sector workers, such widespread obstinacy over still-generous pension arrangements is misguided. From the doctors, it is inexcusable.

A mother and father have been charged with the murder of their six children who died after a fire at their home in Derby.

The Bradford coach, Mick Potter, believes dehydration may have been partly to blame for Adrian Purtell's heart attack.