Researchers say that eating less meat could be the key to maintaining a healthy weight....

Andrew Lansley has announced that the Health Protection Agency is to be closed....

Research has suggested that people who carry on their studies for longer are able to "compensate for the effects" of dementia....

People in northwestern Canada and the US are beginning to suffer from a fungus that is usually found in tropical locations....

Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne virus, has caused a wave of recent deaths in the Carribean....

Information obtained following a Freedom of Information Act request by the BBC has revealed serious mistakes at hospitals across the north east of England....

In Yunnan province, in southwestern China, more than 80 children are currently suffering from lead poisoning due to illegal gold smelting in the region....

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is set to publish guidelines for the threshold for GP patient referrals....

The British Medical Association has said the government should suspend its new £600 million "Spine" project because of inaccurate data....

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has said that special teams should be put in place to help patients with "cancer of unknown primary"....