Health

Ketamine use is spreading in Britain and the government has no plan to deal with it

If more Italian hospitals were made as welcoming as the Rizzoli, patients would be less scared to go inside in search of help

Weight loss jabs really can help people to slim down. But that’s when the problems start

Many of its own MPs won't support measures that could see some people lose £10,000 overnight

A crackdown on visas for so-called lower-skilled migrant workers will have a devastating effect on an already creaking sector

Current abortion law in Britain is just a series of loopholes. It’s time for new legislation, because, as the US example shows, women’s healthcare can quickly become a political target

Scaremongering and clumsy amendments should not stall the cause of helping the terminally ill to die with dignity

The diagnosis for cancer patients and researchers has got considerably worse since we left the EU. Does the government have the courage to act?

In a world reordered by Trump, The Handmaid’s Tale is now more relevant than Nineteen Eighty-Four

Two hours in a Tel Aviv hospital was enough to convince the right wing journalist that Israel's insurance-based healthcare is better than the NHS. But is it?

Nothing could prepare me for the experience of going to a gym sauna in the US

Trump, foreign aid cuts and anti-vax hysteria have set the world back. We are less prepared than we were in 2020

The EU bans around 1,000 chemicals from its food products due to health risk. In the US the number is just seven

Five years on from the first UK lockdown, 2020 feels alien compared to today

Wes Streeting has taken a scythe to the nation's health services. Will it work?

If you are neurodiverse, there’s a strong possibility that the health secretary doesn’t believe you

Despite a long history of vaccine misinformation, Robert F Kennedy Jr is still expected to come through a confirmation battle and become Donald Trump’s health secretary

Sweden’s youth show no sign of cutting down on their tobacco habits

Could Athens's new approach to helping users slowly reverse the country's drug crisis?

Could 2025 possibly be any worse?

Fears that we are on “a slippery slope" to widespread euthanasia are misplaced

Legalising cannabis seems an open goal for a government determined to raise cash for public services, ensure social justice and improve public health

Putting a cherished but broken NHS at the centre of a complex moral argument is fraught with danger

Is her forthcoming memoir’s defence of abortion an indication that Republicans won’t be so hardline on this issue if elected?

Pressure is on John Swinney’s government as price rises are doing little to stop teenage drinking habits

People in the UK are living longer lives – our economic system is not set up to deal with the consequences

Labour and Tories are both divided on assisted dying – so long as that political uncertainty continues, Britain isn’t a safe place for vulnerable people

Many of us are hoping the prime minister's policy doesn't stray from pragmatic to heavy-handed

There is no good reason for banning cigarettes outside pubs while allowing them on the pavement next door

You can understand why people want to at least take back some semblance of control, when their passport is eventually stamped and they enter the “other country” of serious illness

If the British state is to meet the crises to come, urgent restructuring is required