The mourning after
He'd heard the debates about the cost of alcohol abuse to the NHS, but only when novelist Chris Paling found himself on a ward with long-term alcoholics did he really grasp the prognosis
Are we sick of hospital food?
What are your experiences of hospital food? The outstanding, the dire, and the merely passable; Jay Rayner wants to know about it all
Children being failed by health system, says head of watchdog
From knife crime to hospital care, young people still put at risk, according to outgoing head of Healthcare Commission
Panel to review cervical cancer screening for under-25s
• Move follows tabloid campaign after Jade Goody case• Two of three named experts have already dismissed case
Training for new parents part of child health reform
Antenatal classes, £340m for child disability support and more contraception promotion to teenagers included in new child health strategy
Homeopathy: Sometimes a dose of nothing can do you a power of good
Homeopathic remedies such as essence of crop circle and 'F sharp minor' may sound daft but they play a vital role in modern medicine, writes Michael Brooks
False assurances
Edzard Ernst: The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council's claims to regulate alternative medicine are misleading and dangerous
EU to help patients get transplants abroad
New directive will allow Britons who need organs urgently to get them in countries that have a surplus
Whatever you do, don’t panic
Oliver Burkeman introduces six unpublished 999 transcripts, where the drama of an emergency call unfolds
999 call transcript: The cardiac arrest
Read a previously unpublished 999 call transcript as an operator helps the children of a man who has had a heart attack