Campaigners and doctors set up ‘sick bays’ to highlight diesel emissions health risks Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace.Hun…
Readers discuss ways to combat the UK’s excessive sugar consumption and the large amounts contained in processed food and drinksGeorge Monbiot should not be surprised about the UK’s obesity crisis (We’ve entered a new age of obesity, 15 August). In 197…
Eli Global invests in private clinics amid fears of shortage of publicly funded facilitiesThe UK private rehab market is set to grow exponentially, one of the largest addiction firms in the country has said after receiving US investment.Addiction treat…
The practice of medicine is the most difficult and complex undertaking of humanity and mistakes will be made, says retired doctor Peter Estcourt. Doctors such as Hadiza Bawa-Garba do not need the threat of court if things go wrongI was greatly heartene…
It’s not that we’re eating more, that we exercise less, or that we lack willpower. The shaming of overweight people has to stopWhen I saw the photograph I could scarcely believe it was the same country. A picture of Brighton beach in 1976, featured in …
How can you guarantee that every member of a food production supply chain has used these chemicals ‘according to the label’, asks Craig SamsYour article (One man’s suffering exposed Monsanto’s secrets to the world, 11 August) is the tip of the ice…
Machine-learning system can identify more than 50 different eye diseases and could speed up diagnosis and treatmentA new machine-learning system is as good as the best human experts at detecting eye problems and referring patients for treatment, say sc…
Court finds in favor of Dewayne Johnson, first person to take Roundup maker to trialMonsanto suffered a major blow with a jury ruling that the company was liable for a terminally ill man’s cancer, awarding him $289m in damages.Dewayne Johnson, a 46-yea…
Company’s own records revealed damning truth of glyphosate-based herbicides’ link to cancerIt was a verdict heard around the world. In a stunning blow to one of the world’s largest seed and chemical companies, jurors in San Francisco have told Monsanto…
That life expectancy in Britain has slowed to a standstill is down to one thing only: the Tories’ ideologically driven policies“We got there in the end – a remarkable national effort”: that’s how former chancellor George Osborne celebrated the governme…
Strategy of targeting members’ general health as well as diet boosted by its star ambassadorThe Oprah effect has continued to work its magic for Weight Watchers, with the company reporting 1 million more members in a year and revenue up by one-fifth.We…
Richard Branson has pledged that if and when he could take a dividend from Virgin Care he will put 100% of that money back into the NHS, writes Nick Fox of Virgin GroupYour article (Virgin awarded almost £2bn of NHS contracts in past five years, 6 Augu…
Privatisation has been a disaster for public services. The NHS should be in public hands, not run by corporations like Branson’sRichard Branson’s Virgin Care has hoovered up £2bn worth of NHS contracts over the past five years. This should get the…
Membership increases by 27% but share price dips as revenue growth falls short of forecastWeight Watchers International continued its impressive subscriber growth through the second quarter, growing 27.6%, or 1 million, to 4.5 million over the past yea…
Up to 28,000 fewer EEA care workers in five years, says Department of Health report Women will be forced to quit their jobs to look after ill or ageing relatives if the supply of EU care workers is severed after Brexit, the Department of Health has war…
Virgin’s rapid expansion into healthcare has seen it winning contracts for services from immunisation to sexual health In early 2000, the Labour government realised it had a problem with the NHS.Alan Milburn, the then health secretary, wanted fresh ide…
Exclusive: Richard Branson’s company now one of UK’s leading healthcare providers, analysis revealsVirgin has been awarded almost £2bn worth of NHS contracts over the past five years as Richard Branson’s company has quietly become one of the UK’s leadi…
Retailer to take on Body Shop with test stores that will also stock bigger vegan food rangeThe high street health food chain Holland & Barrett is to open vegan stores as part of a plan to cash in on the increasing number of people who shun all meat…
Pharma firm warehouses 14 weeks of supplies in Britain case of ‘no-deal’ shortagesThe French company Sanofi has become the latest drugs manufacturer to start stockpiling medicines amid mounting uncertainty over the UK’s exit from the EU. Supplies of th…
Workers on zero-hours contracts are often too scared of losing income to call in sick. So, even if unwell, they just carry onThe number of sick days taken by UK workers has fallen to its lowest rate in 25 years. According to the Office for National Sta…
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