This pill is a cheap, nasty way out of dealing with the real causes of obesity
Zoe Williams: It suits policymakers to offer the overweight a magic bullet: better than facing expensive stuff like economic hopelessness
Adultish giggling
Rebecca Front: Bring on sex education at primary school, if it leads to parents who can say penis with a straight face
Children being failed by health system, says head of watchdog
From knife crime to hospital care, young people still put at risk, according to outgoing head of Healthcare Commission
‘There’s no formula for survival’
Jo Baker-Watson can imagine how the Camerons must be feeling today: her daughter Megan, who had cerebral palsy and epilepsy, died eight years ago
Cerebral palsy and Ohtahara syndrome
Ivan Cameron suffered from two neurological conditions both caused by malformation of the developing brain
Sex aid: how the government is trying to ease facts-of-life fumbling
Talking to Your Teenager About Sex and Relationships pamphlet is unveiled by children's minister
We’re failing autistic people, minister admits
Government is to launch adult autism strategy, followed by 12-week consultation period to address failure in care
Fat chance
Open thread: If a government initiative on pies with less pastry and chip-free days won't work, what will?
Alfie’s story is characteristic of New Labour’s failings
Polly Toynbee: The weaknesses of the teenage pregnancy strategy reflect how hard it is to roll the boulders of social change uphill
‘I’m amazed it went undetected so long’
When the MP David Lammy's mother started feeling back pain, he bought her a new bed. But the cause was ovarian cancer, one of the UK's biggest killers