Foggy guidelines won’t help the dying

Yvonne Roberts: The DPP's explanations on assisted suicide are just confusing. We need proper parliamentary debate and intelligent legislation

Students warned of lethal risks from ‘legal highs’

Ministers back campaign to warn clubbers of health dangers

Tim Worstall: GDP is not the be-all and end-all of our existence; it talks of value added to economies but has little to say about anything else

Ann Robinson: There are many reasons why the health secretary's plan to abolish GP practice boundaries would be bad for patients

Food Standards Agency to highlight fact 75% of salt eaten is in cereals, tomato ketchup, ready-made soup and bread

Bidisha: A graphic new German anti-Aids advert is not useful or enlightening. But then public health campaigns are tricky

Hospitals already at 'breaking point' and having to close critical care beds, says shadow health secretary

Tony Blair: Faith and development: The secular world should better appreciate the potential role of religion in nations' development

Survey of 450 firms finds that fewer than half have contingency plans in place to cope if outbreak gets worse

Ed Pilkington travels to Quindaro, Kansas, to see how the poorest survive without healthcare provision