The General Medical Council launches guidelines on assisted suicide to help it decide if doctors should face a disciplinary panel on the issue.

A woman gives birth on the pavement outside a Fife hospital after she was unable to get inside the building.

Alberto Contador is handed a two-year ban for a doping offence - and is stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title.

US space agency officials let their European counterparts know that it is now highly unlikely that America will participate in joint missions to the Red Planet in 2016 and 2018.

A clan chief is accusing the Scottish government and SNH of not listening to islanders' concerns about a conservation area.

An 83-year-old woman is fitted with a jaw made by a 3D printer in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind.

An 83-year-old woman is fitted with a jaw made by a 3D printer in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind.

The NHS in England spends £59,000 a day on translating documents and providing interpreters, according to a health think tank.

Russian scientists are attempting to beat US and British rivals to be first to drill into an Antarctic sub-glacial lake.

Katie Piper told Radio 5 live about being able to see after she was blinded in one eye after an acid attack.

Why refuse an implant that would improve hearing?

Dr Michael Dixon, chair of the NHS Alliance, who supports the governments proposed reforms of the NHS and Dr John Lister, director of the Health Emergency campaign group, who opposes them, debate the Health Bill.

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says there are "undoubted dangers" in re-drafting shared parenting law

A number of children under 10 are treated in hospitals in Northern Ireland for eating disorders, the Department of Health says.

Pictures reveal how charcoal keeps Liberia cooking

China tells its airlines not to pay charges to the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, aimed at cutting carbon emissions.

A campaign to stop people smoking in cars when carrying children - and which could pave the way for a ban - is launched by the Welsh government.

The risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes, a study of 400,000 pregnancies in England suggests.

The risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes, a study of 400,000 pregnancies in England suggests.

Scientists find two species of colourful worms