Deaths prompt call for screening
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A leading member of the GAA suggests that health screening for young people should be investigated.
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When patients with heart disease are brought to a hospital, why not identify suggest a screening for their family as well?
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For a prime example of medical screening that has proliferated beyond reason, consider the alarming case of full-body computed tomography scans to detect cancer, cardiovascular disease and other conditions.
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Police are appealing for witnesses after the death of a man who was attacked while he was treated in an ambulance.
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An inquiry is to be launched after a charity highlighted six deaths of people with learning disabilities in NHS care.
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A task force is set up to tackle rising suicide numbers around a south Wales town after the death of a  seventh young person.
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Medical advances are forcing more patients and families to confront ever more grueling choices about living and dying.
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At-risk patients in England are to be offered screening for heart disease and strokes, Gordon Brown is to say.
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A bill to create an independent panel of experts and municipal workers to probe child-care deaths was introduced into the City Council yesterday as lawmakers move to tackle the rising fatality rates.
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Health officials call on Vietnam to  improve road safety, amid a rising death toll on the country's roads.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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Screening elderly adults for  signs of abuse may catch many more cases than otherwise would  be, a new study suggests.
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Millions to be screened for the first time by NHS in attempt to wipe out one of England's killer conditions
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A coroner calls for investigations into the death of a baby boy who died following a forceps delivery.
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A woman who cradled her dying daughter and later died herself has become the subject of a medical investigation.
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Inquiries get under way into the deaths of two men in separate incidents in Inverclyde and the Borders.
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Sport: Death of former Zambia international, Chaswe Nsofwa, prompts demands for heart screening.