NHS ‘must lessen trauma of miscarriages’

Parents web forum Mumsnet calls for new code of practice to help women who lose their babies

This homeopathy row has nothing to do with placebos

Zoe Williams: Americans get heated about guns and abortion. Here, proselytisers build their identity on the efficacy of sugar pills

Ann Robinson: We should think very carefully before we start routinely taking drugs such as Modafinil to boost cognitive function

Emine Saner asks the experts how the NHS can catch up with Europe

Worrying trend sees increasing numbers of older adults developing allergies for the first time

Homeopathy is big business, but a report by MPs is expected to conclude that there is no place for the controversial treatment in the health service

Access to NHS weight-loss operations is inconsistent, unethical and a postcode lottery, says Royal College of Surgeons

Richard Reeves: It's hard to quantify the social costs – and benefits – of drinking. Moral panic can offer no new solution

Thinktank proposes that severely intoxicated people should pay the price – £532 – of their short-term treatment

Mike Marqusee: Using the martial metaphor for something as complex as cancer makes the disease ripe for political and financial exploitation