How paying for your treatment would help save the NHS

‘Free at the point of use’ has had its day. Other European countries use health insurance without the poor suffering, so why can’t we?

Americans don’t need single payer healthcare to get universal coverage

Bernie Sanders, like a lot of progressives, conflates European-style healthcare with the UK system. But either his plan or Clinton’s can bring about real reform

Unilever boss warns UK against sugar tax

Paul Polman says the tax is ‘not the holy grail’ and there is little evidence around the world such a levy can actually tackle Britain’s obesity crisis

This is the NHS: a day in the life of the UK’s busiest maternity centre

For the next month, the Guardian is telling the story of one of the most complex organisations in the world, through the voices of those on the frontline. On Thursday, we reported live from Liverpool Women’s hospital

Crunch data to live longer, says David Agus – the doctor who treats the stars

Listening to our bodies and recording and analysing the results is more beneficial than smoothies or vitamins, says the physician who treated Steve Jobs

Welsh government amends plans for e-cigarette ban

Instead of wide-ranging prohibition, Labour in Wales now seeks controversial vaping restrictions in places where there is potential risk to children

Gay men need clear information about ‘chemsex’, not messages about morality

When health professionals and the media talk about gay sex as an emergency health issue, they may actually encourage risky behaviour

NHS urged to respond to growing health dangers of chemsex

Gay men describe how they became dependent on heavy drug use at group sex parties, as alarm is raised over lack of coordinated response

‘It was the scariest thing I’ve ever done’: the Irish women forced to travel for abortions

Every year, thousands of women come from Ireland to England for abortions – illegal at home, and punishable in Northern Ireland by life imprisonment. These are their stories

Mindfulness has huge health potential – but McMindfulness is no panacea

Britain’s robust cross-party parliamentary report on the benefits of mindfulness is a model to legislators across the developed world: this ‘way of being’ is no quick fix