What you eat could protect your gut bacteria from being destroyed by antibiotics, a new study suggests. Research has shown that taking antibiotics - especially too many - can change the amounts and types of bacteria within the intestines. 

It's the perfect excuse to put the kettle on. For research has suggested drinking tea could be good for your brain and stave off age-related decline.

The number of new cases of type 2 diabetes may be declining, research suggests. Australian scientists looked at 47 studies carried out from the 1960s to 2014, largely across the US, Canada and Europe. More than a third (36 per cent) of these...

Adults are advised to do muscle-strengthening exercises twice a week, as well as aerobic exercise, to help them stay active for longer, under new guidance from the UK's top doctors.

Children should not be allowed to start primary school unless they have been given the MMR vaccine, senior GPs have said.

People who have had a hip replacement operation could be walking out of hospital within hours thanks to new minimally invasive surgery being introduced to the NHS.

Children who are badly behaved are more likely to suffer from insomnia when they are adults, research suggests. Scientists at Flinders University in Australia analysed data from 25,000 children, all of whom were tracked until they turned 42....

Supercooling human livers to -4C triples the time they can be kept before transplant compared with putting them on ice, US researchers say. It slows the metabolic rate to prevent damage, Nature Biotechnology reports. It means organs can be kept...

More pharmacies in England will start offering people free, on-the-spot heart check-ups from next month. Shoppers would have their blood pressure and cholesterol tested.

Women could be forced to wait up to ten months for some HRT products to return to the shelves. GPs and pharmacies are struggling to supply many leading brands due to manufacturing shortages and supply problems. Among the products expected to...