A hospital maternity unit where 10 women died in three years has begun an inquiry after another three women died there within 10 months. Northwick Park Hospital had been placed on special measures after the previous deaths between 2002 and 2005.

The words new mother Fiona least expected or wanted to hear when she gave birth were: "It's a boy." The 30-year-old and her husband Paul used in-vitro fertilization, known as IVF, with the specific aim of producing a daughter and expected a girl for the

The virus responsible for most cases of cervical cancer has a serious weakness which may provide hope for new treatments for the disease. Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a virus which causes several types of cancer but is particularly associated with cervical

Doctors in Glasgow are treating Scotland's first diagnosed case of the drug-resistant XDR tuberculosis strain. The man who has the XDR-TB strain is reported to have come to the UK from Somalia. He is now in isolation at the Gartnavel General Hospital.

Depressed women seek more sex than those who are happy because it makes them feel secure, a new study confirming long-held beliefs has found. Women with the blues, suffering from mild to moderate depression, have as much as a third more sexual activity

A French mother suffering from an incurable and disfiguring cancer was found dead today, two days after a court rejected her request for medical assistance to help end her life. Chantal Sebire, 52, whose face was swollen and distorted by a rare tumour in

A father described today how he tried to resuscitate his four-year-old daughter after she accidentally hanged herself with a hairband as she played in her bedroom. At an inquest at Ashford Coroner's Court, Phil Brown told how he discovered Paige hanging

For any parent, their child's first day at school is a rite of passage. But it was particularly poignant for Sharon Dempsey as she watched her four-year-old son Owen, resplendent in his new uniform and clutching a Buzz Lightyear bag, follow the other

Diane Parr could only listen in horror as she heard the surgeon asking for the scalpel. She was lying on an operating table for a tooth extraction due to an abscess -- a procedure she'd been assured was routine. Minutes before, the anaesthetist had

To some she may seem an oddity, but to one Indian couple their newborn daughter is simply a God reincarnated. Their as yet un-named four-day-old baby girl was born with two faces, two mouths and four eyes in the rural Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, 50km