20mph limit ‘would save children’
The government's public health advisers called yesterday for a 20mph speed limit in residential areas to save 13,000 children a year from death or injury.
Tapping the mood
Anti-fluoride MPs may go to court.
Fast food firms face screen test
A Labour MP is to introduce a bill that would ban fast food companies from advertising to pre-school children amid calls for the government to tackle obesity among British youths, writes Claire Cozens.
Plan to cut hospital stays the US way
Reid hopes to import private health corporation's methods.
‘You live with cancer – not just die with it’
Last week, the MP Evan Harris announced he was putting his political career on hold to spend time with his terminally ill girlfriend. He tells Simon Hattenstone how he feels the NHS let her down - and what lessons can be learned.
Care reforms target ethnic minorities
500 new staff to boost mental health provision.
Fat matters more than ever
It is time for a properly resourced strategy that will tackle obesity, writes Anna Coote.
Drug incentive schemes under fire
Pharmaceutical firms accused of overstepping advertising rules.