Andrew Lansley’s Department of Big Macs

Philip James: By cosying up to the food industry the health secretary is ignoring all scientific thinking on obesity

Diane Abbott demands inquiry into corporations’ role in health policy

Shadow public health minister 'shocked' by government move to include McDonald's and others in plan to tackle health crises

The real happiness index

If the government wants to assess the nation's wellbeing, they have to ask the right questions

Happiness index to gauge Britain’s national mood

Despite 'nervousness', David Cameron wants measure of wellbeing to steer government policy

McDonald’s and PepsiCo to help write UK health policy

Exclusive: Department of Health putting fast food companies at heart of policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease

Looking for advice? Stop Googling and get some rest

Libby Brooks: As Claire Rayner knew, the mind-boggling detail on every conceivable dysfunction available online is no substitute for the basics

Government refuses to increase payments to victims of contaminated blood scandal

Public health minister Anne Milton said increasing payments in line with the recommendation of independent report into the scandal would cost £3bn

Alzheimer’s patients to get drugs on NHS after government U-turn

Campaigners welcome 'momentous day' after three-year battle for access to the only remedies thought to delay symptoms

Equality Act – a health warning for the sick and disabled

The Equality Act brings the UK in line with its competitors, but may not be much good to jobseekers who are disabled or suffering from a medical condition

Health insurers force children into the ranks of the uninsured

Seema Jilani: The modest measures imposed by healthcare reform have provoked a fierce defence of profit ahead of people's wellbeing