At a court in Hull, a judge has recommended that a two-year-old boy is taken into care, after social workers said he was suffering from breathing difficulties due to his parents smoking heavily.

For the first time, vitamin D will be added to bread, over concerns of a rise in rickets caused by widespread deficiency.

Campylobacter bacteria is the biggest cause of food poisoning in Britain and kills 100 people each year. The Food Standard Agency survey suggests that many supermarkets still continue to sell chicken heavily contaminated with the food poisoning...

Snacking on protein and soy-rich foods in the afternoon helps stave off hunger and could therefore help in the battle against obesity, new research has revealed.

New drugs that lower cholesterol levels more effectively than statins may also halve patients' chances of suffering a heart attack and dying, according to new research.

Many diabetics could be saved from blindness after scientists found a way of preventing a sight-threatening disease that affects them.

Scientists are scanning the brains of healthy elderly citizens as part of an ambitious new Alzheimer's treatment which hopes to discover the cause of the disease.