Breast implants: part-time surgeons putting women at risk, MPs told
Consultant investigating UK response to French PIP scandal warns committee of 'huge differences in levels of responsibility'
Women with diabetes warned to take precautions when having a baby
Diabetic mothers-to-be have high risk of giving birth to children with congenital abnormality, study says
How US private insurance healthcare is failing
Rose Ann DeMoro: Sky-high premiums, denied treatments, families bankrupted by medical bills … which bit of US healthcare would you like?
Why I’m off for some vitamin D – until the sun comes out
Ann Robinson: Vitamin D deficiency is being linked with sudden infant deaths and fractures in children. Is it time to start taking supplements?
Cosmetic surgery advertising ban urged by leading surgeons
Group calls for tighter regulation of industry and says adverts for operations such as breast enlargement should be outlawed
Fruit and vegetable consumption by poorer families falls 30%, figures show
Rising food prices and recession resulting in lower income households cutting their recommended five-a-day portions
Where the NHS is heading
Letters: The proposal that credit rating agencies should decide the fate of hospital services is final evidence of the intent behind the health bill to commercialise the NHS
Comment is free readers on … body image
The people's panel: As an inquiry into self-image coincides with a protest against dieting, five readers tell us their experience
Enabling communication is vital in families of deaf children
Charlie Swinbourne: Families need to learn to sign for the sake of their deaf children – yet they are often denied the chance
High risk healthcare ‘will suffer if medical cover is privatised’
BMA warns that proposals to replace NHS Litigation Authority with private model 'mimics worst aspects of US healthcare'