Darzi: Giving patients more say and staff more freedom to shape high quality care round patients' needs. Ambitious plans were unveiled today by leading surgeon and Health Minister Ara Darzi, to raise the quality of healthcare for patients right across th

After six years of struggling to move beyond the "promising startup" phase, a Twin City biotech company is rolling out its first products for sale and looking down the road for new ways to put algae to work in nutrition, medicine and even energy functio

Many commonly-eaten "healthy" breakfast meals are laden with salt, a campaign group has said. Consensus Action on Salt and Health (Cash) said a lack of labelling meant customers could be unaware of large amounts of "hidden" salt in their breakfast.

Researchers in Houston receive federal funding to find ways to provide low-cost, personalized health monitoring to people with chronic diseases living in working-class communities.

Two reports from TRAFFIC, the world's largest wildlife trade monitoring network, on traditional medicine systems in Cambodia and Vietnam suggest that illegal wildlife trade, including entire tiger skeletons, and unsustainable harvesting is depleting the