The obesity challenge to the NHS looms large. The costs of treating related health conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, are rising relentlessly. Policymakers are anxious to find answers. Prevention is the goal, but what sort of nudge is most effective to get people to look after themselves better?
A woman left with PTSD after the birth of her daughter says she relived the trauma "over and over again" as she cared for her newborn.
Friends Judith and Anne turned insecurity after surgery into an environmentally friendly business called Giggle Knickers.
Nearly one in four young women has a mental illness, with emotional problems such as depression and anxiety the most common, figures for England show.
A nutritional supplement may be able to slow the development of some cancers and enhance the effects of treatment, a study in mice suggests.
Travellers to the remote African islands of Bijagos can expect to find a tropical paradise of pristine beaches and lush rainforest.
A fish that can repair its heart may hold clues for future treatments in people, according to a study.
An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity says.
Romaine lettuce has been linked to an outbreak of E. coli in the US and Canada, health officials say.
A doctor, a newly graduated pharmacist and a police officer were killed after a gunman opened fire at a hospital in Chicago, police say.
Catherine Benfield wasn't diagnosed with OCD until she was 31, after she had her first child, though it would appear she's had it all her life. She recovered with the help of therapy - and by creating a character who personifies her obsessive-compulsive behaviour.
"I'm not a hero," says Gillian Assor, six months after preventing a suicide on a railway bridge near London. "I just happened to be walking past."
Women who survive a heart attack caused by a condition called SCAD are usually told not to have children due to the risk of it happening again. Now the first babies are being born at the world's first clinic that helps heart attack survivors to have a baby.
Noise levels in hospitals are getting worse, research suggests.
Some 3,000 foreign doctors in the UK are being urgently checked after a woman practised psychiatry for 22 years without any qualifications.
The authorities in Kenya have banned the international health organisation Marie Stopes from offering any form of abortion services.
Every blood donation "can save up to three lives", yet come December thousands miss vital appointments to give blood, as the festivities kick in.
There are lots of reasons to dread moving in for that first kiss - dying isn't normally one of them.
A five-minute scan could be used to spot people at risk of dementia before symptoms appear, researchers claim.
