Healthier sweet foods urged in battle against obesity epidemic

Food Standards Agency calls for reduction in sugar and fat content of tempting foods and drinks

MPs deliver their damning verdict: Homeopathy is useless and unethical

Martin Robbins: Homeopaths are evoking conspiracies to explain a brutal report, but in reality they were undone by their own bizarre pronouncements

Homeopathic association misrepresented evidence to MPs

Scientists are angry that homeopaths cited their research as proof the treatments work when it showed nothing of the sort

Smoking: Progress without principles

Editorial: When history is written, the smoking ban could well loom larger than anything else New Labour did

Don’t stub out smokers’ pleasure

Sholto Byrnes: If Andy Burnham knew the joy of a post-prandial cigarette, maybe he'd forget his dreary ambition to banish smokers from doorways

Homeopathic remedies: a real cure or a waste of NHS money?

Homeopathy is big business, but a report by MPs is expected to conclude that there is no place for the controversial treatment in the health service

Obese patients ‘encouraged to put on weight to qualify for surgery’

Access to NHS weight-loss operations is inconsistent, unethical and a postcode lottery, says Royal College of Surgeons

The worth of a pint

Richard Reeves: It's hard to quantify the social costs – and benefits – of drinking. Moral panic can offer no new solution

Binge drinking over New Year’s Eve could cost NHS £23m, says thinktank

Thinktank proposes that severely intoxicated people should pay the price – £532 – of their short-term treatment

Relationships: Not just for Christmas

Editorial: The welfare state was developed to ensure material needs were met, but its architects presumed that emotional and psychological needs would be met by family and community. That is not always so