How design is helping people with dementia find their way around

For people with Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases, just navigating around the house can be difficult and disorientating. But some pioneering approaches are offering new solutions

Seven ways to become a donor

From offering blood or organs to making a gift of your voice or hair, there are many ways to become a donor without opening your wallet

Life-saving optimism: what the west can learn from Africa

In the US, where I teach, mental health problems are rife. In Nigeria, poverty is common but there’s no hopelessness. Why, asks author and academic Chigozie Obioma

My father received poor treatment for Parkinson’s. Here’s what I did

His care left me horrified – but it spurred me on in my medical career to make sure others didn’t face the same ordeal

‘I don’t like the stress of dying’: the game for people who don’t want to fight

#SelfCare packs a ‘tend and befriend’ strategy to appeal to players who find combat titles a turn-off. Its designers, Brie Code and Eve Thomas, make the case for staying in bed all day

Student mental health must be top priority – universities minister

Sam Gyimah says issue requires serious leadership from vice-chancellors

‘Get shredded in six weeks!’ The problem with extreme male body transformations

Men’s Health magazine has transformed many men – and its own fortunes – by featuring extreme muscle makeovers. But does changing shape fast have a dark side?

Forty years since Fat Is A Feminist Issue

Susie Orbach never imagined her classic book would still be so relevant decades later

70 years of the NHS: a revolution that is reborn every day

The creation of the health service changed Britain. Yet while this vision is under severe threat, it has also never been more keenly cherished

Supermarkets targeted in the battle against obesity

Checkout offer bans and TV advertising watershed are key steps to tackle health crisis