Brown’s guru rebukes NHS
The business leader who convinced Gordon Brown to pour more than £40bn into the NHS has issued a scathing rebuke over the government's failure to deliver genuinely radical improvements to patient care.
Teach more personal finance, schools urged
Parents would prefer their children to be taught how to handle their finances rather than some of the more traditional subjects, according to new research.
Is it OK … to join a gym?
Leo Hickman: There are many who pedal or row furiously on a machine in a gym and wonder why all the energy isn't being harnessed somehow and made to, say, power the television showing MTV above their heads. They are right to wonder this. You would have the added incentive that if you stopped pedalling, the loud music video driving you on, or the cooling air, would cease.
People always ask me…
... have you found any unusual objects in x-rays?
Women go private to get ‘miracle’ drug
Victims of breast cancer may be able to claim for Herceptin on their health insurance, writes Jill Insley.
Pleasure and pain in the dentist’s chair
Will the biggest shake-up in years leave you down in the mouth? Tony Levene reports.
Insurers deny moves to use cancer test results
In brief: The insurance industry has denied that it is seeking to use genetic test results from breast and ovarian cancers to charge those carrying inherited mutations higher premiums for life and health insurance.
Take the pain out of a visit to the dentist
With NHS care being reformed in response to criticisms of the old 'drill and fill' system, Lisa Bachelor looks at how to avoid a large cavity in your finances.
For love nor money
It is widely thought that wages are the key, if not the sole, reason we work. But, says Adrian Furnham, there's no real evidence that cash either motivates or makes us happy.