Country music star Randy Travis is out of the hospital three weeks after he was admitted with congestive heart failure and later suffered a stroke.

St Nicholas Abbey’s recovery depends on his temperament and avoiding complications

Italy’s dubious relationship with far-right politics is in the spotlight again with news that an unabashed neo-Nazi doctor has been reported to the country’s health ministry.

Gordon had his larynx removed during surgery to treat throat cancer

Campaigners protested in central London against the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM).

He’s brilliant, almost to the extent where he’s thinking and worrying about stuff too much

BBC is criticised for ‘trivialising’ plastic surgery by backing contestant’s project

The industry has been calling for stiffer regulation for some time

Bizarre event took place in US state of Washington

A surgical knife that can detect when it is cutting through cancerous tissue is being tested in hospitals, raising hopes that the spread of cancer left behind after surgery could soon be curbed more successfully.

The NHS needs a blame-free culture, a spirit of openness and the ambition to succeed

Hannon swayed by pressure to appeal against controversial Falmouth Stakes ruling

It is now clear that the "one or two mistakes" were in fact overwhelming problems, but phasing out the LCP still leaves the problems it was created to resolve

The Yamaha rider was thrown from his bike and landed on his already damaged left shoulder