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Job losses at jobcentres and children's services, plus, hospital voluntary redundancy scheme• More than 4,000 job centre staff may lose their jobs over the next year, according to a leaked memo.The Department of Work and Pensions employs 80,872 employees in the state-owned jobcentres, which will have to be reduced to 76,500 over the next year.•...

Medical experts say a devastating brain condition is at least twice as common as was previously thought.

A blood test during pregnancy could one day replace more invasive tests for Down's syndrome, say researchers.

Members of the British Medical Association call for homeopathic remedies to be taken off pharmacy shelves designated for medicinesHomeopathic treatments should be banned from the NHS and taken off pharmacy shelves designated for medicines, doctors said today .Members of the British Medical Association said homeopathic remedies should be relegated to...

A protein in the blood is found to carry the same increased risk of heart disease as high blood pressure and cholesterol.

People in the UK have a higher risk of early death than those in many other wealthy countries, a study shows.

A study by a Stanford University scientist, published in the Lancet, is the first to use the full genome to glean information on somebody's future wellbeing For the first time, doctors have used the genetic profile of an apparently healthy middle-aged man to predict his risk of developing dozens of diseases in later life.Dr Stephen Quake, a 40-year-old...

Whether allowing babies to cry is wrong or right, it is experts' tone and the manner of debate that causes most offencePenelope Leach is what behaviourists would call a "hugger mother", or, now that her children are adults, a "hugger mother supporter" – she has always disputed that babies should ever be left to cry, and science has lately caught...

Such patients are more prone to get diabetes, have a stroke, suffer serious bleeding and end up in intensive careNHS staff are providing extra care for growing numbers of "superobese" mothers-to-be because their extreme weight poses serious health threats both to them and their babies.New research reveals that more than one in 1,100 women who give birth...

Cash incentives and the payment of funeral costs are among proposals to encourage people to donate organs, eggs and sperm.