People who live in rural areas are happier than city dwellers, new research has found.

People with type A blood may be more likely to suffer from travellers diarrhoea, or 'Delhi belly', as it has been dubbed, new research has discovered.

Diabetes testing kits are urgently recalled amid fears they give false readings and could put lives at risk.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced in the House of Commons that hundreds of thousands of women aged between 68 and 71 had failed to get invitations since 2009 because of a computer error.

Our bodies need a number of nutrients in the form of minerals and vitamins to function properly. A deficiency of any of these minerals and vitamins leads to a deficiency in the body, which manifests itself in the form of a number of symptoms...

Parks and green spaces generate health benefits that would cost more than £34bn if they did not exist, research by Fields in Trust has suggested. The charity, which protects green spaces, also found that parks save the NHS about £111m a year.

It is said that a GP surgery has been asked by the Home Office to reveal a patient's address in what health campaigners fear is an “escalation” of invasion into confidential records. 

According to a new report, search engines like Google and Bing are more likely than any other source of information to provoke anxiety during pregnancy.

Researchers have found that that bosses should let workers have lie-ins in order to stop them from having an early death.