Unfinished business

Reform and controversy have been the key features of Alan Milburn's tenure as health secretary, writes Tash Shifrin, and his successor will face more of the same.

Sex: the public health crisis

Michael Adler: The nation's sexual health is now in serious decline - but NHS support services are shambolic, underfunded and stretched to the limit.

The fat fatwa won’t work

Mary Riddell: The rich get thinner and the poor get larger. That's why obesity is a pressing political issue.

Fat chance

Up to 10 million Britons could be diabetic by 2020, victims of bad diet and lack of exercise in their youth. Jo Revill reports on how to we can keep our children healthy.