The Ministry of Justice is considering banning prison sentences of less than six months in England and Wales.

Doctors will be asked asked if they would help a terminally ill patient to die and whether the law should be changed to allow assisted dying.

Almost half of people suffering with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have been dismissed by doctors who claim their illness is psychological. 

Two new species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been discovered in the blood of patients in China.

The NHS will not hit its target of hiring thousands of extra GPs next year, the Health Secretary has admitted.  

Dyslexia is no longer being diagnosed by councils that claim the disorder is “scientifically questionable”.

Since BJP came to power under the astute guardianship of PM Narendra Modi, India’s prestige and respect has gone up in leaps and bounds throughout the world but in particular in Western world as well as among Islamic nations of Middle East and...

A group of MPs want the government to introduce a Minister for Hunger to respond to a growth in food insecurity in the UK - especially among children.

More than a dozen ethnic minority academics from UK universities have come forward with allegations of unlawfully being paid less than white colleagues with similar or lesser jobs. They have spoken out following BBC revelations that ethnic minority...

Hospital parking charges were introduced couple of decades ago, perhaps with the good intention of stopping commuters and shoppers, free lodgers who were occupying these spaces reserved for the sick and the disable visiting hospitals while on...