Health

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

The health secretary Wes Streeting has the daunting task of overhauling the NHS amid increasing financial strain

Even in a country where smoking remains socially acceptable, restrictions still look likely to be widely acknowledged

A new report by EMMA Association has highlighted the discrimination Romani women have faced after fleeing the war

The most brutal aspects of the country's drug war are spreading nationwide

The government’s policy is not built with real children or teenagers in mind

I know I need to give it up, I'm just not ready to leave Neverland yet

Despite the pandemic and record waiting lists, health spending has gone up less than was promised

Much of the criticism the NHS receives is given by the ministers who helped create its problems

The Italian revolutionised children’s education and established the schools that carry her name all over the world to this day

For children and vulnerable adults, some level of state-enforced restriction can be benign

Even with planned changes to the sponsorship rules, the risk of exploitation among care workers will remain

Worrying stories about UPFs are everywhere. But the truth is more complex than the headlines suggest

Targeting ill and disabled people is a desperate move from the prime minister. Sick, you might say

The brain drain of talent from the poorer south to the richer north has created a crisis in the country’s health sector

The PM implied that 1.35 million were off work because of depression or anxiety. That’s not true

Despite sky-high waiting times, trust in the NHS remains high. The same cannot be said for the Tories

In many other countries in Europe, assisted dying is already legal and the UK should follow suit

An aspiring Labour government cannot avoid the questions raised in the Cass review

Scientists cannot provide evidence that homoeopathic treatment works, but the Greens’ fandom is too ingrained to ‘follow the science’

In Britain, women with a health condition can sit in medical purgatory awaiting a diagnosis for up to three years. I’m one of them

The CDU Party has already announced it will scrap the law if it wins next year’s election

To dismiss ADHD while offering no supporting evidence is small-minded and overlooks Britain’s leading role in understanding the condition

A new study has found the disorder may be advantageous. After all, society would be far duller without us

Germans demonstrate a remarkable zeal for pursuing fraudsters

As Sunak’s ban on new smokers opens up another war within the Conservative Party, is our relationship with tobacco coming to an end?

Keir Starmer will have to focus on Britons’ quality of life if he wants the country to start healing

Rishi Sunak has little incentive to fix the NHS’s problems

The Bundestag has still not passed the proposed new law decriminalising the use of marijuana

The predicament of cancerous smokers is a bit like that of Brexit voters: we all did something fucking stupid, knowingly, and now we’re paying the price