Food industry ‘responsibility deal’ has little effect on health, study finds
Firms agreed to make their products healthier, for example by reducing amounts of salt, but few have done so, researchers say
A sleep expert’s guide to surviving an election all-nighter
Avoid coffee and alcohol, snack on cereal with fruit to ensure you don’t nod off, and keep the bedroom a TV-free zone
Doctors Dissected and NHS for Sale: Myths, Lies and Deception – reviews
What is your doctor really thinking? And what does the future hold for the NHS?
Not so pretty: women apply an average of 168 chemicals every day
On average, women use twice as many personal care products as men, applying far more chemicals to their bodies. What’s the impact on their health?
Coalition ‘derailed programme to save lives by reducing salt in food’
Ending Food Standards Agency’s nutrition responsibility slowed progress in cutting deaths and new targets gave industry too much power, health experts say
Life, like the election, is about trade-offs. You can’t have, or do, it all
‘Knowing you can’t possibly have everything, or get everything done, spares you the anxiety of trying to figure out how you could’
The power of deadlines
Dean Burnett: The voter registration deadline is just one example of deadlines prompting a flurry of desperate activity. But why does this happen?
Hundreds of mental health experts issue rallying call against austerity
400 counsellors, psychotherapists and others sign letter saying ‘society thrown completely off balance’ by ‘emotional toxicity of neoliberal thinking’
The election’s gone to pot: Northern Ireland gets broadcast from pro-cannabis party
Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol (Cista) party has enough candidates in Northern Ireland to qualify for a five-minute slot on television there
Ed Miliband accuses Tories of trying to ‘fund NHS on an IOU’
Labour leader promises to provide 3,000 extra midwives as he lambasts George Osborne’s pledge of an extra £8bn a year for health service