So your New Year’s resolutions failed? Here’s how to make new ones
Every year, many of us resolve to be healthier and wealthier. But what goals improve the odds of actually becoming happier in the long run?
How do I … keep the doctor at bay?
The cost of running the health service has ballooned, so here are some ideas – beyond paying your taxes – to keep it fighting fit
FGM: number of victims found to be 70 million higher than thought
Half of girls and women cut live in just three countries as Unicef statistics reveal shocking global scale of barbaric ritual
What a US company could teach the NHS about an ageing population
British GPs take note – medical centres in Florida are ditching the one-size-fits-all model and specialising in elderly care, reducing hospital time while saving money
Why a tax on fizzy drinks would help tackle the UK’s £10bn diabetes epidemic
More than one in 20 people in the UK has type 2 diabetes, with consumption of sugary drinks proven to be a direct cause. Failing to tax them is irresponsible
Jeremy Hunt’s rash advice to Google kids’ spots – cartoon
The health secretary’s suggestion that parents go online to check symptoms is ‘potentially fatal’, according to doctors
Top 10 books about cancer
Treatment of this cruel disease has advanced hugely in recent years, but writers from Philip Roth to Christopher Hitchens show the awful human cost it still exacts
What was in the tonic the doctor used to prescribe?
Readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts
I’m 52 and I feel OK. What’s wrong with me?
According to the Office for National Statistics I should be at the nadir of the long, middle-age valley of despair. Maybe I’m just a late starter
Letter to my daughter: what is it like to be a girl in 2016?
Psychotherapist and anti-FGM campaigner shares her hopes and fears for all girls around the globe this year in a letter to her 13-year-old daughter