Prostate cancer breakthrough as UK team develops more accurate test

Ultrasound technique overcomes problems with current methods to diagnose the most common cancer in men

Love Island and other shows ‘encourage teenagers to smoke’

Reality TV series and major films expose young people to tobacco imagery, MPs told

Extra glass of wine a day ‘will shorten your life by 30 minutes’

Drinking is as harmful as smoking, and more than five drinks a week lowers life expectancy, say researchers

‘Social media has poisoned us’: young Britons on why they are unhappy

From student debt to loneliness, young people in Britain share their reasons for why the happiness of 16 to 25-year-olds is so low

The NHS is underfunded. Even a former Tory health secretary sees it

The health service is in crisis – as Andrew Lansley’s comments on the screening that could have caught his cancer make plain, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Baobab fruit takes off as a ‘superfood’ with sharp rise in UK sales

African fruit’s popularity growing thanks to high content of nutrients and antioxidants

Super-gonorrhoea is here – that means the antibiotic crisis is too

Highly drug-resistant bugs are no longer a future problem. After decades of complacency, urgency is needed, says Jeremy Knox from the Wellcome Trust

Man’s £54,000 NHS cancer bill raises ethical questions that can’t be ignored

Royal Marsden said treatment for Albert Thompson requires payment. It’s the first step in applying the same logic to all

Yoga with Modi: Indian PM stars in cartoon video of poses

India’s leader says yoga is key to good health and has convinced UN to launch world yoga day on 21 June

Campaigners call on UK retailers to stop stocking Antarctic krill products

Greenpeace wants health shops like Boots to follow the lead of Holland & Barrett and ditch products that threaten the pristine waters home to penguins, seal and whales