Last updated at 08:12 ET The prospect of high student debt and increased pension contributions could discourage young people from entering medicine, a doctor has warned. Tom Dolphin, of the British Medical Association, told the Junior Doctors Conference that students paying £9,000 tuition fees will have debts of up to £70,000 by the time they start working...

Personal genetic testing does not lead to an increased use of health services, a new study finds. The opportunities for people to undergo genetic tests to learn their degree of risk for developing a disease are increasing, and some experts fear this might lead to overuse of expensive medical care...

Last updated at 21:36 ET Dieting in pregnancy is safe for women and does not carry risks for the baby, a review of research has suggested. The British Medical Journal analysis looked at the findings from 44 previous studies involving more than 7,000 women...

Sounds like a rather basic title, and it’s definitely that way on purpose. We are all striving to be “better looking” in our day to day lives. We do our hair a certain way to be “better looking”, we apply our makeup a certain way to be “better looking”, and we work out incessantly at the gym to be “better looking”...

Although people with a family history of high blood pressure (hypertension) are at much greater risk of developing the condition themselves, regular exercise and physical fitness may significantly lower that risk, according to a new study...