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(Economic & Social Research Council) The elderly are cared for by their adult children regardless of their marital status. In a unique study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, researchers found British adult children help their elderly parents according to current need (i.e. health) rather than past behavior. This contrasts with other countries such as the US, where parents with a history of divorce see less of their children and receive less help from them.

AN MP with a cleft palate will this week attempt to introduce a change in the law that could lead to fewer abortions on the grounds of disability.

FIVE hospital patients a day are put at risk as a result of blunders over drug prescriptions, an investigation by Scotland on Sunday has revealed.

THE world's first trial to make blood transfusions free of the human form of 'mad cow disease' has been launched by doctors in Scotland.

Near midnight on a California spring night, armed guards escorted Yusif Osman into an immigration prison ringed by concertina wire at the end of a winding, isolated road.

Cows, tunnels, terminal illness, a toe snapping off... you name it, someone, somewhere is worrying about it. but how did we get into such a state - and what can we do to get out of it? Patricia Pearson has some suggestions.

Some patients' noisy artificial hips are interrupting daily life and raising questions about more serious problems.

A boat carrying aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma has sunk while trying to reach people in the south of the country.

Ministers will warn that England's care system is heading towards a £6bn shortfall unless there is radical reform, the BBC learns.

British adult children help their elderly parents according to current need (i.e. health) rather than past behaviour. This contrasts with other countries such as the US, where parents with a history of divorce see less of their children and receive less help from them.