Cycling in Britain: government to get serious with all-party inquiry

Parliamentary cycling group hopes to build on 2012's track success to get UK pedalling up European tables of bike use

Are we getting childbirth wrong?

The conversation: Kirstie Allsopp discusses caesareans, guilt and breastfeeding with birth guru Sheila Kitzinger

Calls for expansion of scheme providing free breakfasts to hungry children

Boris Johnson launches £650,000 programme to provide healthy food to children in capital's most deprived boroughs

Change4Life advertising campaign highlights sugar and fat in food

Government TV campaign targets obesity after supermarkets agree voluntary 'traffic light' food labelling

Childhood obesity: Jeremy Hunt threatens food industry with legislation

Supermarkets and manufacturers told to get 'their house in order' or face laws to curb high levels of sugar and fat in food

Ban high-sugar cereals to tackle child obesity, says Andy Burnham

Labour targets foods that can be over one-third sugar as OECD report says English children are among fattest in Europe

Measuring wellbeing: the science of smiles

Editorial: Money can't buy you happiness – but the sense of utility granted by work, which can, is in equally short supply

Liver charity calls for early screening

British Liver Trust wants doctors to test at-risk patients after random examinations show one in four have early damage

Calls for reform of the cosmetics industry date back to 2005

The failure of successive governments to protect patients from an industry capable of inflicting harm is baffling and inexcusable, writes Denis Campbell

Cosmetic treatment industry faces tough regulation over ‘grubby’ tactics

Government-ordered review hears calls to ban aggressive selling and protect patients after PIP scandal