DIY drugs: should hospitals make their own medicine?

The long read: If pharmaceutical companies rapidly inflate the price of their products, is there an alternative? One Dutch chemist thinks so

How putting NHS staff first is making hospitals better

Yoga, pilates and Dragons’ Den-style contests are among a host of innovations that are turning around failing trusts

I look at my laughter lines and mutter: ‘Nothing’s that funny’

According to Iain Duncan Smith I’ll still be expected to work when I am just one giant stiffened joint

‘Vaccine hesitant’: a gentler label than anti-vaxxer, but just as scary

Reluctant parents who keep their opinions on jabs to themselves have been called a global threat by the World Health Organisation

No, Boris Johnson, working harder is not a solution for poor mental health

Offering tax incentives to companies who support depressed employees sounds like a step towards privatising the NHS, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Government to issue ‘sleep hygiene’ guidance

Leaked draft says less than seven hours’ sleep can damage mental and physical health

Students support disclosure of mental illness to parents

Two-thirds say problems should be revealed in extreme circumstances, research finds

Crisis in Care: Who Cares? review – the horrors of austerity laid bare

This devastating expose met the people in need whose lives are being ruined by government cuts. Anything slashed by two-thirds is no longer fit for purpose

CBD: a marijuana miracle or just another health fad?

The cannabis-derived compound is popping up in everything from mineral water to bath bombs. We ask experts and users if it actually works

This man had to fight for benefits just before he died – when do we start to care?

Stephen Smith’s struggle exposed benefits cruelty. Now he is dead, but the system goes on, writes Guardian columnist Frances Ryan