Scottish government plans restrictions on sugary and fatty foods
Ministers’ plans to tackle obesity in some cases go further than health ministers in England
Supermarkets targeted in the battle against obesity
Checkout offer bans and TV advertising watershed are key steps to tackle health crisis
Is it time to legalise medical cannabis in the UK?
The case of 12-year-old Billy Caldwell has given fresh impetus to the debate on medicinal marijuana, but reforming the law is difficult in an industry plagued by non-scientific methods
Back pain: how to live with one of the world’s biggest health problems
The most common cause of disability is a condition as old as time itself. But is the industry that has built up around scans, injections and opioids a waste of time?
We need reform of the NHS to avoid a decade of misery
MPs from different parties urge cross-party approach to solve underfunding of healthcare
Introduce mental health checks for new mothers, ministers told
Six-week checkup would help the 50% of UK mothers with mental health problems
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