Love Island and other shows ‘encourage teenagers to smoke’
Reality TV series and major films expose young people to tobacco imagery, MPs told
The NHS is underfunded. Even a former Tory health secretary sees it
The health service is in crisis – as Andrew Lansley’s comments on the screening that could have caught his cancer make plain, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
Britain’s contaminated blood scandal: ‘I need them to admit they killed our son’
In the 1970s and 80s, 4,689 British haemophiliacs were treated with contaminated blood products. So far, more than half of them have died. The government knew there were risks involved. The patients didn’t. Will they ever get justice?
Obesity is a greater threat for millennials than cannabis. It’s absurd
Millennials look set to be the fattest generation of Britons ever, yet the government continues to dodge the issue, writes Simon Jenkins, a Guardian columnist
So the UK’s eating more than it realises – here’s how we could get thin
We’re hugely underestimating our daily calories – the way we consume food needs to be overhauled, writes Michael Hallsworth
Call for ban on chocolate price cuts to fight obesity crisis
Charity also recommends 20% sugar tax on all confectionery after finding up to 29 teaspoons of sugar in one ‘sharing’ bag
‘I knew I was in labour’ – why are women being turned away from hospital during childbirth?
As a number of women recount how they were mistakenly told to go home and wait, before giving birth on the pavement or in a lift, experts warn that more investment in early-labour care is needed
My cancer operation was cancelled and I can’t sleep at night. Jeremy Hunt, how can you?
Why won’t Jeremy Hunt fight to get the NHS the funding it so desperately needs, asks Carly O’Neill
Mass closure of NHS walk-in centres is fuelling winter crisis, claim campaigners
Easy access to medical help for many denied after 40% of services shut
David Davis’s ignorance: now that’s what I call health and safety madness
Austerity has already driven a coach and horses through environmental standards – and we haven’t even got to the Brexit cliff edge yet, writes the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee