Mindfulness has huge health potential – but McMindfulness is no panacea

Britain’s robust cross-party parliamentary report on the benefits of mindfulness is a model to legislators across the developed world: this ‘way of being’ is no quick fix

Mindfulness in the mainstream: an old solution to modern problems

Leading mindfulness expert Mark Williams will brief MPs on how meditation could drastically improve the UK’s wellbeing and productivity

Happiness vs GDP: can wellbeing statistics find a place in political debate?

Despite David Cameron’s support and a £2m cheque, wellbeing measurement is struggling to make inroads in politics

Profit, not patients: the risks of private medicine

Ultimately, private providers have their shareholders’ interests at heart, not their patients’. A GP and celebrated writer shares his experiences of how the healthcare system works

Junior NHS doctors have it easy now, or do they? – cartoon

Why older doctors complaining about a possible strike by their younger colleagues might be in need of a reality check

The Guardian view on endometriosis: a silent source of unnecessary misery

Editorial: Not life-threatening, but life-altering: the disease that neither its victims nor medicine know enough about

Feel unwell? Call the fire brigade – cartoon

A pilot scheme is asking firefighters visiting homes to check on smoke alarms to do health checks at the same time. Who does that leave to put out the fires?

Body image: MPs to consider ban on ultra-thin catwalk models

Caroline Nokes to launch parliamentary investigation into industry after 30,000 people sign petition demanding fashion week health checks

The unlikely saviour of the NHS: drug-resistant gonorrhoea

The epic challenges of the post-antibiotic age will take the debate beyond the well-worn issues of obesity and old age

What does Jeremy Corbyn’s victory mean for the NHS? – cartoon

The Labour leader’s landslide victory can only be good news for overworked doctors … or can it?