Bush’s bitter medicine
The poor need cheap drugs, not cheap talk.
Marijuana for Aids patients
Marijuana is to be distributed to cancer and Aids patients this morning in Santa Cruz, California, in the latest battle of an increasingly bitter war between the states and the federal government over the medical use of the drug.
‘It’s fat, fat and more fat’
Sharon Krum on the 19-stone American man who is taking four fast-food chains to court for making him obese.
Land of the fat
Obesity kills 300,000 people a year in America and is the nation's number-one health hazard. Nowhere is this more true than in Mississippi, where food is cheap and exercise unheard of. Matthew Engel visits the heaviest state of a country that is in danger of busting the scales.
This is Nogales, Mexico. It may not look like much but it’s a lifeline for many Americans
Cheaper drugs attract busloads of elderly citizens over the border.