Children should not be allowed to start primary school unless they have been given the MMR vaccine, senior GPs have said.

People who have had a hip replacement operation could be walking out of hospital within hours thanks to new minimally invasive surgery being introduced to the NHS.

Children who are badly behaved are more likely to suffer from insomnia when they are adults, research suggests. Scientists at Flinders University in Australia analysed data from 25,000 children, all of whom were tracked until they turned 42....

Supercooling human livers to -4C triples the time they can be kept before transplant compared with putting them on ice, US researchers say. It slows the metabolic rate to prevent damage, Nature Biotechnology reports. It means organs can be kept...

More pharmacies in England will start offering people free, on-the-spot heart check-ups from next month. Shoppers would have their blood pressure and cholesterol tested.

Women could be forced to wait up to ten months for some HRT products to return to the shelves. GPs and pharmacies are struggling to supply many leading brands due to manufacturing shortages and supply problems. Among the products expected to...

The Teenage Cancer Trust wants the HPV vaccine programme to be extended to older boys and young men.

Cancer now causes more deaths among the middle-aged in higher-income countries than cardiovascular disease, a study suggests.

A hospital has written to 349 patients and 129 staff over suspected contact with a healthcare worker with tuberculosis (TB), it has emerged. The letters gave helpline details to the patients treated at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

Sleeping too much - or too little - raises the risk of a heart attack, warns major new research. Less than five hours was linked to a 52 percent greater risk of heart attack, while those who slept more than 10 hours a night were at twice the...