Andy Burnham assured Prince Charles over complementary medicine plan

Then health secretary told prince in 2009 he was keen to move forward on study about integrating complementary medicine with standard healthcare

Would I like to take the Ubble ‘death test’? Er, no thank you

An online quiz claims to be able to tell if you’re likely to die within five years. I think I’d rather concentrate on living

Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari review – for everyone whose date never texted back

Sexting, snooping, cheating … the comedian takes a light-hearted tour through the minefield of dating in the age of the smartphone

‘Curing Queers’: Mental Nurses and Their Patients, 1935-74 by Tommy Dickinson – review

A powerful study of how aversion therapy was used to ‘treat’ homosexuality exposes a nasty episode in recent British history

Yves Saint Laurent ad banned for using ‘unhealthily underweight’ model

Advertising Standards Authority’s ruling criticises YSL’s use of female model with ‘very thin’ legs and ‘visible rib cage’, calling fashion advert ‘irresponsible’

Why doctors get it wrong about when you will die

Doctors use data and experience to give their best prognoses for fatal illnesses – but patients can live for months or even years. Here, a consultant explains why

Four hours on your feet at work? We won’t stand for that

Office work is the next key step in our evolution into gelatinous pillows pecking out digits into a spreadsheet with our long, bony fingers. Resistance is futile

Office employees should be on feet for four hours of working day, study says

Research co-commissioned by Public Health England calls for a workplace revolution through use of sit-stand desks to avoid risks of a sedentary lifestyle

Cancer breakthroughs trigger big pharma interest in drugs and deals

Companies are scrambling to get into the immunotherapy market, which experts think could eventually be worth up to £26bn a year in sales

Why aren’t men in their 30s pressured to have kids? The answer isn’t biological …

Over the weekend women in their 20s were again under pressure to conceive. But this debate isn’t about fertility so much as an outdated social conservatism