Alcohol

Deaths from liver disease up by a quarter in a decade fuelled by drinking boom in Britain

GPs 'should ALWAYS ask patients how much they drink' claim MPs who see intrusion as vital to beating booze culture

Middle-aged tipplers: Over 45s more likely to drink every day than younger people

Leading doctors warn of liver failure epidemic in young adults as cases soar

Increasing numbers of doctors, dentists, vets and lawyers are becoming 'functioning alcoholics'

Third of middle-aged men are more likely to develop liver disease and cancer through 'risky drinking'

Don't drink on 3 days a week... As the liver crisis deepens, leading doctors warn of the dangers

Alcohol-related hospital admissions reach record one million level

Alcohol to blame for 13,000 cancer cases a year in UK

Are YOU addicted to wine o'clock?

Critics slam 'stupid and ridiculous' £75,000 scheme to give alcoholics mobile phones so they can receive regular texts to help them quit as a 'waste of money'

Charity's concern at alcohol-related hospital admission

Alcohol deaths down BUT less alcohol is consumed in recession

Flawed study: Alcohol is not more harmful than heroin, crack cocaine:

Despite the headlines - Alcohol consumption actually 'continues to fall'

Drinking puts 1,500 people in hospital every day

PCT faces high court challenge after axing alcohol rehab funding for the Priory

GPs to quiz NHS patients over alcohol intake as watchdog pleads for minimum pricing

Prescriptions for alcohol dependency reach record level

Booze Britain : Prescriptions for alcoholism soar 12% in a year

Alcohol-related liver disease trebles in 15 years

Cost of alcohol abuse in Scotland up to £4.64 billion a year

MPs lambast 'dire state' of alcohol services in damning report

Alcohol abuse will push hospital admissions past a million, experts warn

100,000 will die in next decade due to drinking

'Wind-down wine' alert: The relaxing glass that is turning working mothers into alcoholics

How women in their 40s are drinking more than ever

Regular drinking adds 4in to women's waists... and it puts an extra 2in on men's beer bellies

How the middle aged have turned to drink: Stronger wines and beers fuel alcohol explosion

Alcohol fuels rising rates of oral cancer in middle age

'Little help' for alcohol abusers

Daily alcohol limit 'unhelpful' and potentially harmful

Confusion 'fuels alcohol misuse'

Units of alcohol should be reviewed: MPs

Hundreds of thousands of older people 'turning to drink after retirement'

Drinking deaths up 40% since Labour came to power

High-flyer film publicist, 33, dies suddenly of liver disease after regular drinking for her job

Alcohol 'could cause one in four cases of dementia'

Alarm at big rise in middle class women drinkers

Middle-class drinkers to be targeted with calories

Daily drinkers at greater risk of liver disease and bingers

Middle-class OAPs spend their pensions on binge-drinking as hospital admissions soar

Middle class over 45-year-olds now the most frequent drinkers

Insurers target middle-class drinkers with higher premiums

Awareness campaings & binge drinking ads don't work say researchers

10 million adults drink too much and wine drinkers are the worst, watchdog warns

Alcohol-related hospital admissions double under Labour

The metals in your daily glass of wine that have been linked to cancer and Parkinson's

In detail: nine types of heavy drinker

Coroner warns binge drinkers after 10-pint spree kills barman

A quarter of adults drinks excessively as doctors warn of 'tsunami of alcohol-related harm'

Alcohol-linked hospital admissions rise 7% in a year - double in 10 years

Wine is worse for brain than beer, scientists reveal in blow for women drinkers

Just two glasses of wine a day 'can double blood pressure'

Middle-aged binge drinkers dying in record numbers

Alcohol-related deaths double, report shows

Teens as young as 15 are drinking 177 pints of beer a year, report reveals

Millions of women drinking more than they realise because of larger wine glasses

1,000 victims of binge-drink Britain hospitalised every day

'I'm a middle-class drinker and it's slowly killing me'

Epidemic of middle-class drinkers damaging health with 'hazardous' levels of alcohol

Tantrums, violence and useless, the £12,000 therapy: what REALLY goes on inside rehab

A third of GCSE pupils get drunk - and many are using drugs as well

The ladette effect puts 40% more children in rehab for alcohol abuse

Now the DIY liver test kit that tells you when you've had enough

Binge-drinking epidemic increases as alcohol related A&E admissions soar

Number of alcohol-related cases doubles in a decade

Alcohol-induced illnesses soar

Government crackdown on middle class drinkers

Mothers-to-be who have one glass of wine a day need help, says doctors

Smoking

NHS smokers struggling to stay quitters!

Doctors back demands to deny NHS treatment for smokers and the obese

Safety fears over electronic cigarettes because they are 'unclean' and unregulated

Women pay the price for smoking as number of lung cancer cases rises

Giving smokers extra free nicotine patches or intensive NHS helpline counselling 'does nothing to help them quit'

Stop Smoking or Lose Weight - Patients refused treatment unless they change their lifestyles

No smoke without fire: Cigarettes will cost one hundred million lives in UK unless current smokers quit

Health Basics: E-cigarettes; are you trading one bad habit for another?

Nicotine patches branded a waste of time as study finds they don't help smokers quit long-term

Tobacco firm JTI gave thousands of pounds worth of hospitality to nine MPs who opposed smoking bill

Medicos want Champix banned

Champix 'greatly raises suicide risk and should only be used as a last resort'

Number of smokers trying to quit with NHS help trebles in a decade... but most don't succeed

Smoking is a bigger risk to women who are 25% more likely to get heart disease than men

Smoking may be banned in public parks and cars in new 'zero-tolerance' zones 

Anti-smoking drug Champix 'increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes'

Smoking vaccine fails clinical trials, $4.1 million in taxpayer dollars down the drain

Text messages more successful than NRT in helping smokers quit

Taking anti-smoking pills was far scarier than dodging bullets and bombs in Iraq

Why No smoking signs actually ENCOURAGE smokers to light up

Father who murdered his family 'was quitting smoking and on Champix that caused depression'

Little success on smokers quitting as most smokers 'want to quit but struggle to go without'

Cannabis 'raises the risk of cancer and other killer diseases'

Despite millions spent, smokers loose faith in NHS services

Smokers are to 'filtered out of workplace' as too much trouble to employ

NHS 'Should pay smokers to stop and obese people to lose weight'

Nicotine in NRT products linked to breast cancer for the first time

NHS claims to help a record 370,000 smokers to quit... at a cost of £224 EACH

Expectant mothers to be given smoking breath tests

Cigarettes cost could go up to £7.42

Willpower works better than patches if you want to quit smoking

Government targets cigarette packaging

Government's anti-cigarette drive to stop you smoking at the wheel and at home

Want to quit smoking? Switching to mild cigarettes will NOT improve your chances

NHS: Smoking ban made no difference

One in 20 hospital admissions 'due to smoking'

Smoking risk for middle-aged men

Fewer smokers kicking the habit - despite the NHS spending a record £74m NHS quitting campaign

40 per cent of teenagers know someone hurt by cannabis

Smoking in middle age increases risk of dementia by 75%

Fewer people 'planning to quit smoking'

The cost of smoking on your wallet, health and life insurance

Boy, 14, collapses after overdosing on nicotine gum handed out in school

Popular Stop-Smoking Drugs to Carry Mental Health Risk Warnings

Smoking costs the NHS more than £5bn

Smokers cost businesses £2.1bn a year due to 'fag breaks' and sickness

How the big pharma's influence smoking policy and the treatment YOU receive

Women smokers get lung cancer earlier than men, says study

Chewing nicotine gum can 'increase risk of mouth cancer'

NRT Failure Rate Soars to 98.4%

Smoking ban fails to curb the habit: Figures reveal men are smoking MORE

Rise in young adult smokers

Champix anti-smoking drug linked to 10 British suicides

Stop smoking drug 'Champix' concerns raised

'Smoking police' hit the streets to shock people into quitting

NHS suspects fraud in £61m stop smoking programme

Report says smoking costs NHS £2.7 billion pounds a year

Health chiefs axe 200 beds... then fork out £350,000 on 'stop smoking' advisers

Drug taken to stop smoking is linked to traffic accidents

Sky Sports executive slashed wrists after taking controversial stop-smoking drug - Champix

Council sparks fury as it becomes first in Britain to ban smoking outside pubs

Woman tries to kill herself while taking Champix: Is this smoking pill safe?

Widow claims father-of-two driven to suicide by 'quit smoking' drug Champix

Stop smoking NHS clinics don't 'work'

Smoking at the wheel could lead to conviction

Cannabis use among young offenders rockets by 75 per cent in just three years

Doctors refuse to fix builder's broken ankle unless he quits smoking

Dramatic fall in heart attacks in wake of smoking ban in Scotland

Tenants who can't light up at home

Third of bosses to axe cigarette breaks when smoking ban arrives

Smokers told to quit or surgery will be refused

Smokers face £80 fine for dropping butts in the street

Anti-smoking pill approved by watchdogs despite clear evidence of low success rates

Give smokers paid time off work to quit

Anti-smoking 'wonder pill' launched

Smoking ban meets resistance in "tolerant" Germany

£50 Million bill for nicotine patches 'that keep smoker addicted'

Government considers raising smoking age

Lung disease undiagnosed in 4 of 5 sufferers

Drugs

'Tweaking memories' could help addicts avoid relapsing

Brains may be hard-wired for addiction or junk science?

More Fiction & Spin - Number of crack and heroin addicts fall by 10,000 in two years

Drugs treatment policy for England 'doomed to failure'

Failure to help drug addicts is costing Britain £3.6bn a year

Drug addicts cost taxpayers £1BILLION a year in jobless benefits

SNP's new policy on drugs drops methadone

Re-Branding: New Therapy Battles Soaring Drug Addiction  

A middle-class mother spends £28,000 in 2 rehabs to be rid of cocaine

True cost of drug addiction in Scotland

End addiction, new government drugs strategy urges

Are fewer addicts really seeking treatment?

Half million Scotts are on methadone

Coalitions' long term drug strategy

Heroin shortage in UK is 'putting lives at risk'

UK is cocaine capital of the western world as cocaine use shoots up by 50 per cent

Cannabis use soars by a third as more than 4,000-a-year need treatment

Spin - rewriting the dictionary to achieve treatment success

Number of drug deaths in Britain soars 12 per cent in a year & 86% over the last 6 years

Change of policy required as calling drug users 'junkies' hinders recovery, says study

From hopelessness to action, moving addicts into recovery

NTA and other health quangos to be abolished in £180m of cuts

Abolish the NTA to cut drug addiction

Limits to methadone prescription proposed by drugs agency

Lives destroyed by not so happy pills

Action on Britain 's epidemic of pill addiction

The Heroin Trial Failure

Prisoners' drug habits maintained, not stopped - report

Heroin therapy call for 'chronic addicts'

Home Office does not know what impact its £1.2bn-a-year drug user scheme provides

A Conservative Government, Science and UK Drugs Policy Failure

Will Conservative plans to overhaul heroin addiction treatment work?

Mephedrone ban 'could do more harm than good'

1,000 new drug addicts every month

Methadone for addicts cost Scotland £16m a year

Big jump in cocaine use 'deeply concerning'

Scheme to let new drugs bypass NHS value watchdog

One hundred babies a month born with drug dependency to mothers hooked on heroin and crack

Obesity drug used by 86,000 patients is banned over heart attack fears

Home care could save NHS £1bn a year

Heroin is 'easier to get in jail'

Hooked on happy pills: Internal bleeding. Strokes. Birth defects. The long term effects of antidepressants are terrifying

Antidepressants Under Scrutiny Over Efficacy

Alcohol and cigarettes are more harmful than Ecstasy and LSD, says drugs tsar

Addicted to methadone? - 2009 Drug Statistics

Drug abuse costs Scottish taxpayers £3.5 billion per year

Injecting drug users rise by 30%

Cocaine 'vaccine' could combat addiction – but unlikely

Shock! 'Addicts offend to get rehab', says Amy Winehouse's father

Girl, 16, died from heroin overdose despite mother's pleas to social services

First Six Months Of Treatment For Crack Or Heroin, But Not Both, Has High Rate Of Abstinence

NTA claims heroin use down - but cocaine abuse is rising

Credibility of the NTA called into question in light of recent study

Claims that 'treatment cures only one in three drug addicts' are pure fiction & spin

Claims that drug therapy record is 'encouraging'

Hope For Crack Cocaine And Heroin Users

Scientists: drug treatment does work

UK addicts may be given free foil for 'safer' heroin smoking

Straw moots heroin prescription

Former health Secretary Patricia Hewitt's son, 21, charged with cocaine possession

Withdrawal from heroin is a trivial matter

Heroin clinics would help few addicts, says agency head

No surprise - Free heroin supply clinic 'cuts crime'

Antidepressant Seroxat tops table of drug withdrawal symptoms

Cocaine death toll up 20% in a year: Fatalities from all illegal drugs at an 8-year high

Herbal drug 'Spice' set to be banned for being stronger than cannabis

Cocaine abuse hits a 12-year high with one million UK users

More than 11,000 under-16s 'treated for drug and drink addiction'

400,000 Britons 'have serious drug problem', says UN

The middle-class mothers with a class A cocaine habit

Drugs advice helpline FRANK to be investigated after teenagers were told to use cannabis and ecstasy

Britain now official drugs capital of Europe as more youngsters use cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines

One in ten adults admits taking illegal drugs in the past year

Drug crime up as Home Office admits police have been under-recording serious offences

Drug policies just make addiction worse

The bureaucracy of drug addiction needs drug addicts far more than drug addicts need the bureaucracy of drug addiction

Perpetuating the Addiction Myth

Drink and drugs 'key' to suicide

£1.85m to get each person off drugs - Drug services make slow progress

Drug success rate of 3% is nothing more than the natural rate of remission

Are Government drug treatment programmes a waste of taxpayers' money?

Number of drug-addicted teens increases by a third in two years, figures show

Millions of pounds 'wasted' on drug treatment, Tories claim

The new 2008 drugs strategy explained

Drug treatment 08 - success or failure?

Rise in drug use sees more than 1,200 children hospitalised last year

Number of children hospitalised for taking illegal drugs rises 50% under Labour

Police losing fight against drugs trade despite billions spent

Cocaine and Ecstasy deaths up 1,200% since records began in 1993

Warning cocaine will be bigger problem than heroin

Cocaine overdose hospital admissions rise 400 per cent in just four years

Anti-depressants taken by thousands of Brits 'do NOT work', major new study reveals

GPs still handing out antidepressants linked to birth defects

Depression pills 'double suicide risk in young adults'

200 heroin addict prisoners forced to go 'cold turkey' win damages for human rights breach

Current drug policy has 'limited impact'

UK drug crime strategy criticised

Crystal meth could become middle Britain's crack cocaine within four years

Britain's first drug 'shooting galleries' hailed a success

£2.5m to treat drug addicts - with heroin

MPs demand reform of drug rationing body NICE

Patients get poor deal from slow NHS, say MPs

Cocaine: The Hidden Epidemic

Quarter of young adults take cocaine or cannabis

Cocaine dieters: Women who turn to illegal drugs in their struggle to lose weight

Drug addicts to be given i-Pods if they beat their habits

Britain is now cocaine capital of Europe

I vowed not to date men who use cocaine 18 months ago - I've been single ever since

Growing numbers of housewives and professionals are becoming addicted to over-the- counter drugs, doctors have warned

Addicts turn Lemsip into 'crystal meth'

Labour's ten-year drugs war has achieved nothing but lower street prices, says experts

UK drug problem 'is worst in Europe'

Health chiefs accused of blocking new therapy for heroin addicts

Drug free treatment for heroin addicts

Methadone 96.6% ineffective

Scrap Britain's Drug Laws

Consumer group slams hidden promotion of drugs

Addict inmates share £750,000

Costs of drug abuse in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

NHS

Screening has over-promised and under-delivered

Doctors back demands to deny NHS treatment for smokers and the obese

NHS Leadership Academy launched to create managers of the future

Surgery and drugs couldn't fix my 13 years of crippling back pain. But six months of physio did: Emma Forbes on her last-ditch remedy

Physiotherapists not allowed to touch patients in 'barmy' NHS initiative

For every life that is saved by breast cancer screening up to TEN women suffer 'unnecessary treatment' including breast removals

I warned about the dangers of metal hips 15 YEARS ago: A whistleblower reveals the real scandal over danger joints

The doctor who broke up families: Psychiatrist who damned hundreds as 'unfit parents' faces GMC probe

What every family needs to know about the great NHS health revolution 

NHS staff cash in on accidents at work, £4,000 for slipping on a potato and £2,500 for walking into a door

GPs make £162m out of 'ghost' patients: Anger over bill for 2.5m non-existent people

PM accused of 'dangerous game of divide and rule' as BMA and nurses excluded from summit over disputed Health Bill 

You ARE more likely to die if taken to hospital at weekend: Study confirms that NHS care is worse on a Saturday and Sunday

NHS lawyer who told doctor to cover up a death is given £100,000 after she lost her job

Fraudsters fleecing NHS of £3bn a year: Bosses 'look the other way' as vast sums are stolen

GPs gave 15,000 children as young as five chemical cosh

More than 200 GPs earn over £250,000 a year while thousands earn more than Prime Minister

Real reason GP's don't want competition in the NHS - rise of the 'Super GP': The family doctor who earns £770,000 a year

NHS diet services ‘ineffective', dieters lose twice as many pounds with private slimming clubs than through NHS

Serious complaints against doctors for botched care and abusive behaviour soar by 40% in three years

WeightWatchers 'three times better than a GP's advice'

NHS Personal health budgets

NHS bosses warned over anti-competitive behaviour

NHS competition saves lives

Nation of pill poppers: NHS prescriptions have soared 70% in the past decade

80% of GPs prescribe drugs to patients they believe are addicted

GPs told to stop 'chemical cosh' for dementia victims which cause hundreds of deaths

NHS services to be opened up to competition

GP bonuses 'lead to poor patient care' as financial incentives boost some treatments... but caused a decline in others

MPs demand NHS complaints shake-up as it is too complicated for patients

Taxpayers will no longer 'bail out' failing NHS hospitals

The gold-tipped laser that zaps varicose veins in minutes - so why are NHS patients still being given a painful procedure that costs the same?

The government's failure to justify NHS reform has left the public short of options

The right prescription: a call to action on the use of antipsychotic drugs for people with dementia

Reform or die, Cameron warns NHS as he makes five personal guarantees on Health Bill

MPs condemn NHS for ignoring official guidance on IVF provision

Hypnosis should be used widely in the NHS 'to save millions of pounds'

Tiered price scheme for pharmaceuticals giant no value for NHS

ADR: Bad reactions to medicines lead to one million people a year being admitted to hospital

Patients increasingly reluctant to recommend their GP practice on NHS Choices

NHS Pneumonia jabs for pensioners to be scrapped 'as they don't work'

Private sector's involvement in the NHS has no limit, says Hewitt

NHS pension millionaires: Health cuts bite, but bosses' retirement pots are still gold-plated

NHS lets 4,500 patients leave hospital emaciated in a year

GPs with fat patients 'should send them to Weight Watchers'

Competition will keep NHS on its toes

'I'm more excited than ever about the NHS healthcare marketplace'

Labour wasted £500m in private treatment centres for NHS

'Patients to suffer' as NHS trusts in London face £100m debt crisis

NHS rapped by MPs for inefficient procurement

Government urged not to turn its back on NHS competition

One in three GPs ignore guidelines on 'alternative' therapies to patients suffering back pain

Greater competition will benefit the NHS – not 'unravel' it

Brushing aside failure King's Fund report calls for new style of NHS management

NHS IT system is a farce 'has cost billions without delivering ANY benefits'

How NHS patients are being used like guinea pigs as faulty implants put thousands of patients' lives at risk

That's rich - GPs threatened by vested interests

GPs cannot assess the benefits and side-effects of drugs - drug data ‘should be made publicly available'

1,600 NHS bosses earn more than PM: Big pay rises handed out as front-line staff face axe

Why the NHS needs competition

Who's saving the NHS from who?

Anger as ten million patients ripped off by GPs' 40p-a-minute phone lines & £8.00 calls

Anger as NHS chiefs run up £13m bill on wining, dining and lavish away days

NHS £1million luxury car scandal as desk worker gets £37k Porsche Boxster sports car funded by the taxpayer

Failed NHS treatments means addicts on sick benefits for decade

Should NHS give patients anti-depressants to help them talk to strangers?

NHS bosses see their bonus pot double in 5 years ... as staff face cuts

GPs can't trusted: Clegg suggests plans for GP-led commissioning could see 'substantial' change

Obesity and alcohol misuse are "preventable health issues" which costs NHS £140m in Wales

NHS too slow to adopt good ideas

ILL-trained doctors pose risk to patients

NHS trusts ''fail to get value for money''

NHS accused of bias against private care

NHS patients promised more choice by new regulator

Taxpayers anger as NHS bosses' pay soars 50% while front line staff face axe

Respected consultant brands NHS management 'a cancer within the health service'

NHS manager numbers falling after 66% rise under Labour

'Quick fix' GPs blamed as number of people using diet pills balloons

NHS told to end culture of overprescribing

Misery of the tranquilliser addicts forced to go cold turkey by GPs

NHS bodies faced to break 'cartel' agreements

NHS been in 'almost continuous decline'

NHS needs to treat productivity issues

Hospital consultants' productivity falls despite pay increases

Leading NHS hospitals, family doctors and consultants face Office of Fair Trading probe

Doctors gunning for Health Secretary Andrew Lansley over NHS reforms as they will be worse off

Real reason why GP's are fighting healthcare reforms - 66% of GPs say THEY will be worse off under commissioning

Incompetent doctors 'protected by silence' of colleagues who fear retribution

NHS bosses' pay soars 50% as thousands of doctors and nurses face axe

Rude, arrogant, lazy: Patients' verdict on NHS staff as two in three tell of poor care

Reforming the NHS: Accountability

NHS bosses blocked hospital food revamp

NHS to meet local health dragons in challenge to improve care

Hospital chaplains who cost £29m a year have no clinical benefit, says controversial study

Mothers-to-be will be taught to hypnotise themselves before giving birth in NHS trial

Growing numbers are backing my NHS reforms

NHS needs to take responsible approach to enormous waste in this financial crisis

Gordon Brown to crack down on 'vested interest' GP leaders

Beware doom merchants with a ‘vested interests'

NHS hospitals wasting £500m a year on 652 different types of gloves and 21 types of A4 paper  

NHS 'wasting billions with no benefits for patients' on cash incentives for GPs

Ripping off the NHS - Now the NHS pays £1,000 for a bottle of salt water!

NHS board handed sweeping powers over fledgling GP consortia

Can it really be true that statins are a waste of time and won't stop heart attacks?

Statins 'may cause loss of memory and depression'

NHS patients to be offered free private treatment... as long as it doesn't cost any more

Competition is good for the NHS

We cannot afford not to reform NHS, says David Cameron

The third sector could help the NHS to flourish

GP's fear competition in the health service

Nearly 1,000 GPs earning £200,000: Ministers fail in effort to rein in doctors' pay

Lucrative NHS overtime payments for consultants questioned

The NHS needs a radical explosion

Leading medics challenge GPs to fight Andrew Lansley over NHS reforms to improve care

Scottish NHS spends £11m leasing cars

NHS must focus on improving health not meeting time limits: Andrew Lansley

Top doctors' pay up £50,000 - for less work: How our overpaid consultants are dragging down the NHS

Overpaid NHS doctors and too few practitioners 'knocks three years off Britons' lives'

NHS shamed by third-rate hospitals: Needless deaths and thousands of blunders exposed

NHS salaries ‘can't be justified'

More than half of West Midlands GPs refer patients to private sector

GP's fear patient revolt as NHS reforms set to end their monopoly and self interest

Why the NHS must provide more care in community - not hospitals

GPs failing to tackle major health issues

NHS reforms are a necessity, not a gamble

More jobs for managers, but fewer for the nurses

'Elite' NHS hospital scandal which left 1,200 dead could happen again, warn campaigners

Many doctors still prescribe drugs instead of effective therapies for chronic back, neck pain

Government promises patients ‘more choice and a louder voice'

Poor GP commissioners should lose their contracts, says health chief

NHS patients to see medical records online

Scandal as greater protection for NHS whistleblowers is needed

Call to abolish NHS pay protection 'lifetime bonuses' for consultants

I lost ten years of my life as a middle class, NHS sponsored drug addict...

Patients suffer as NHS operates a 'closed-shop' market to block the private sector

The British Medical Association needs to stop its scare stories as the private market can help the NHS

GPs stage revolt over NHS shake-up

Why some GP's, the BMA and Labour are against reforming the NHS

Private clinic provides better service and proves cheaper for NHS patients

GP's ignore Ministerial advice as 7% rise in use of Anti-Depressant drugs

Number of official warnings given to doctors rises by almost 50% in just two years

NHS 'Should pay smokers to stop and obese people to lose weight'

Thousands of GPs earn more than the PM... and as much as £500,000 a year

Royal College of GP urges Government to delay start of commissioning to delay private sector

Welsh bid to save £50m in wasted pills and medicines

GP's prescribe one-to-one surfing therapy for mental health patients

Doctors prescribe 'fresh air and farm work' for patients with depression

One in four young doctors quit the NHS over EU rules on hours

GP’s ‘hoover up patients and payments’ many making more than £200k to £500k a year

In B&Q they cost 20p. So why does the NHS spend £99 for a screw to put in your hip?

Number of NHS complaints soars to record high of 100,000 in a single year

NHS Trust spent £270,000 covering surgeon who was suspended on full pay

Doctors want statins served with fast food

Deadly toll of NHS painkiller blunders as hospitals make 1,300 errors

Costly £100m for NHS websites which confuse patients

BMA campaign to shut out independent sector from NHS is misguided and foolhardy

BMA launches public campaign against NHS commercialisation

BMA urges GPs to use new powers to strangle provider competition and restrict patient choice

NHS shake-up grants new powers to doctors and patients

Weight-loss schemes help patients 'more than the NHS'

Wasteful NHS 'cuts 3 years off our lives': Excessive pay and inefficiency to blame, says OECD

Labour wasted NHS billions

Call for greater transparency on NHS £1.7bn consultants' secret 'rich pickings'

DoH road tests NHS direct payments under personal health budgets

In full: Andrew Lansley's speech to the BMA ARM

Lansley promises clarity on NHS strategy soon

Patients free to buy their care with NHS money

NHS Cancer patients failed

Treasury sends back Lansley NHS plan to give GPs control of £80bn

NHS targets scrapped as government cuts bureaucracy

‘Bloated' NHS to be stripped of 9,000 managers and faces around £250m in cuts

Government poised to scrap GP patient survey in favor of outcomes and results

Nurses spend just a third of time with patients because of NHS bureaucracy

NHS 'should pay people' to lose weight

NHS pays private firm £26m for operations that never took place

Critics sickened as just nine NHS bosses go in shake-up

MS drugs scheme a 'costly failure' that set back NHS £63,000 per patient

NHS 'has wasted millions on MS drugs which did nothing to help patients'

GPs call for more time with patients - as Ministers look for £20bn in NHS savings

GPs to quiz NHS patients over alcohol intake as watchdog pleads for minimum pricing

NHS Whistleblowing Policies Criticised

NHS nurse victimised for being a whistleblower: Trainee thrown out after exposing abuse at shamed hospital

NHS consultant suspended from working for EIGHT YEARS for daring to speak out about high death rates

NHS doctors afraid to blow whistle about concerns

NHS spending on 'chemical cosh' child-calming drugs soars by 60% to £31m 

We've poured billions into the NHS, are pioneers in medical research, so why is Britain the sick woman of Europe?

NHS slashes services to meet costs of fake swine flu scare

The NHS investigated: keep the politicians out of it

What do we want from the NHS?

NHS investigated: the Dutch health service

Labour no longer trusted on NHS: New poll shows damning effect on voters of squandered billions

Prescribe heroin on NHS, says Royal College of Nursing leader

Nurses 'to bear the brunt of NHS cuts' as thousands face the sack after the election

For sale: Your most intimate secrets... thanks to the national NHS database

The NHS should never ban patients who go private

NHS can't even get their new uniforms right, after staff complain, of 'unbearable' rashes

NHS cuts ‘threaten talking therapies for psychiatric patients'

NHS 'wastes £25m on silver dressings that don't beat bugs'

Health chiefs' pay bonanza: As nurses' salaries are squeezed, NHS bureaucrats pocket 7% rise

Failure to ensure GPs can speak English properly has cost lives, MPs told

NHS chiefs tried to suppress figures as spending on management is £15.4bn or 14% of budget, MPs reveal

NHS commissioning: 'A sorry story'

NHS plans £20bn emergency budget cuts

Another NHS Farce: The £60,000 Croydon health chief who lives in Canada

Number of NHS bureaucrats increases SIX TIMES as fast as number of nurses

10 years of failure – In 2000 NHS managers were 'to blame for problems'

NHS statistics deliver blow to ministers - Productivity in NHS ‘has fallen steadily since 1995'

NHS bill for spin rises by £4.8m despite the recession

The REAL NHS… the sorry saga of the NHS and my year undercover in hospitals

Former minister points to 'monumental incompetence' in NHS

NHS 'wasting millions on treating the worried well'

OFT watchdog asked to rule on NHS care provision for unfair "preferred provider" policy

NHS: - Up to 1,200 needless deaths, patients abused, staff bullied to meet targets... yet a secret inquiry into failing hospital says no one's to blame?

Debt-ridden NHS Hinchingbrooke Hospital to be run by a private company

NHS safety failings 'kill 40,000 a year' as patients pay price of target culture

Close hospitals and wards to improve patient care, say NHS managers

NHS wastes £487m in just five years on advice from outside management consultants

Expert group warns against ‘slow-tech' NHS

NHS must cut smoking, drinking and obesity among staff

Cameron pledge to slash costs of running NHS

Tories promise 'NHS autonomy bill'

Patients who wait too long will get private care on the NHS

Government warns trusts: 'Don't overuse management consultants'

NHS sends thousands of its own staff private

NHS care causes one in 50 hospital treatments

Tories vow to cut NHS bureaucracy by a third

The NHS? It's about as good as the health system in Slovenia

One in six patients 'wrongly diagnosed by NHS doctors'

Specialist NHS clinics are 20 times more likely to botch hip operations

NHS told to find ways of saving £20 billion

More reform of NHS needed as £15bn of savings must be found: Andy Burnham

London NHS should "prescribe" debt prevention services

Patients to get the freedom to shop around for a GP

Management consultants cost the NHS dear

The NHS gets a bad bill of health

£1.2bn bill for the bureaucrat army within the NHS

NHS 'must sack one in ten staff' as management consultants call for £20billion of cuts

The NHS is about care, not markets

Management briefing: NHS business failure

NHS 'to cut treatments' as it faces record £15billion funding shortfall

Poor managers 'put NHS at risk'

Labour's NHS computer blunders cost £26bn

Higher pay, shorter hours... but complaints about GPs soar 12 per cent in ONE year

Doctors under fire as an alarming numbers of children are given drugs

Health fears that NHS switch to cheaper drugs could put millions of patients at risk of side-effects

Toxic combination - Mixing my medicines nearly made me bleed to death

Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists

Bonuses for doctors: How GPs are earning up to £380,000 a year

Doctors use recession as excuse to 'drive thousands to use anti-depressant pills'

Bleak Britain:  Anti-depressant prescriptions soar even though illness declines

General

Happy pills can give you digestive problems and make you MORE depressed

We need an Office for Scientific Responsibility

End of anti-depressants? Magnetic pulse therapdepressiony eases depression in third of patients

Think the drugs your GP gives you are safe? Well, don't be so sure

Shyness in a child and depression after bereavement could be classed as mental illness in controversial new reforms

Tripadvisor banned from claiming its reviews are real

Jeremy Laurance: Why spare the drug companies?

Now patients are denied 'breakthrough' prostate cancer drug as health watchdogs brand it too expensive

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announces 7,300 job losses as it pares back staff to save money

Heartburn pills taken by thousands of women 'raise risk of hip fractures by up to 50 per cent'

Breast cancer screening cannot be justified, says researcher

'Silent Thalidomide': Thousands of mothers and their daughters at risk of cancer from anti-miscarriage drugs they took decades ago

Side effects and effectiveness of 'wonder-drug' Tamiflu under the microscope as Department of Health faces awkward questions over mass prescriptions

Medical journal openly questions science, ethics of HPV vaccinations

'Worried well' are warned against taking daily aspirin: Pills can cut heart attacks by 10% but raise risk of internal bleeding by nearly a third

Faulty implants, dodgy drugs and a toothless watchdog that's failing patients

Patients at risk after scientists withhold test results from clinical trials of new medicines 

Consequences of ‘stupid medical advice' is bringing ‘rickets back' as cases increase fivefold in 14 years

FDA withdraws approval for breast cancer drug Avastin after declaring it medically useless, but says doctors can still prescribe it

Review site TripAdvisor is useless, damaging and used for blackmail

Now barmy EU says you CAN'T claim drinking water stops dehydration

Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science

Patients sue drugs firm over the diet pills that 'left them suicidal'

Addiction is a 'brain disorder not just a behavioural problem,' say experts  

Major drug research company faked thousands of documents to get drugs approved, FDA says no big deal

Law experts speak out - academics who "guest author" medical journal articles guilty of fraud

The waste of the Labour years: £3.75bn cut from Whitehall budget in just ten months

How Whitehall pays £3,500 for a £250 computer in 'obscene' waste of public money

Charles? He's just a snake-oil salesman: Bitter Professor attacks prince on ‘dodgy' alternative remedies

America conned: Psycho pharma drug pushing empire under fire

Ex pharma sales rep Gwen Olsen says Big Pharma only interested in profits, not health

The anti-depressants epidemic: One in three women take pills to relieve despair during their life

Statin prescriptions soar to a million a week despite side effects

Drug firms 'too heavily reliant on ageing sales portfolios'

Busted! Big Pharma epilepsy study rigged to push drug gabapentin

Government has lost its way on reforms, says CBI

Safety alert over diabetes drug Actos linked to bladder cancer after it is suspended in France and Germany

National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society skewered in new book by leading cancer expert

Labour spending: Gordon Brown and Ed Balls ignored warnings and wasted billions

Magnets could prevent heart attacks by thinning the blood as effectively as aspirin

WHO Recognition for Homeopathy

Homoeopathy's benefit questioned despite WHO report

Cashing in on the The Big C

The costly war on cancer

'Corruption risk' of ex-ministers walking straight into top jobs warns damning report

Hundreds of herbal remedies now outlawed across Europe

European Medicines Agency (EMA) accused of putting pharma profits before patients

Public sector staff 'are 43% better off' than private workers - and the pay gap is widening

More Conflicting Medical Advice as Low-Salt Diet Ineffective, Study Finds. Disagreement Abound

Breast cancer prevention drug 'only works in less than half of high risk women'

Prescribe statins to ALL over-55s, declares professor

Big Pharma lies about statin drugs finally exposed in British Medical Journal

FDA approved Big Pharma drugs without effectiveness data

No longer an illness or disease - Depression could be good for you - sometimes it leaves you more resilient and creative

Too many failures see developers pursuing new strategies to improve trial efficiency

Study: Statins cause memory loss, depression

Chris Grayling pledges incapacity benefit 'revolution'

Benefit applicants - '75% fit to work or drop claims'

Cutbacks council spends £1.2m on free phones for two thirds of staff

Mind can be used to help treat arthritis

PDT: Me and my operation: The beam of light that can kill lung cancer in 15 minutes

Rehashed study - Diet drug Qnexa: Don't get too carried away by old data

Pharmaceutical drugs causing spike in diseases they supposedly treat

Doctor pursues career exposing lies, quackery and fraud in "medical science"

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Exposing Bad Science

'Blinded by Science' explores the power of vibrational energy and water in healing and wellness

Study helps confirm effectiveness of intravenous vitamin C in fighting cancer

Prostate cancer screening has zero benefit, concludes 20-year study

Recession linked to huge rise in use of antidepressants

Antidepressants linked to higher heart disease and stroke risk

Whitehall IT chief Ian Watmore attacks Labour's record

Labours legacy - School leavers unfit for work: 'Firms forced to spend billions on remedial training for victims of education failure'

Half of doctors prescribe placebos, study finds

Placebo Use - Practical medicine or unethical?

Understanding the roots of medical dysfunction

Actos is 'alternative' to banned diabetes drug Avandia

Europe regulators starts safety probe into Actos

Pharma industry wary of UK drug pricing changes

Big Pharma lies about R&D costs to justify huge profits

Conflicting Medical Advice – Another Medical U-turn on ‘apple-shape' warnings: It isn't especially dangerous to the heart

Ministry of Defence pays £22 for a 65p light bulb

Drug research fraud scandal - Millions of surgery patients at risk

Joachim Boldt profile: a glittering fake career built on charisma and charm

Labour cover-up: Reports kept secret by Labour

David Cameron: End state monopoly over public services

Laser light treatment for cancer

CBT and exercise challenge 'no cure' for ME in flawed study

Medical hypocracy alive and well as regulation of herbal medicines gets go-ahead

Herbal medicines will survive after ministers approve plan that bypasses EU directive

Think positively: Placebos really do make you feel better

Nearly all drug trials scientifically invalid due to influence of the mind; Big Pharma science dissolves into wishful thinking

Traditional drug-discovery model has run dry

Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier Supports Science of Homeopathy

You can't overdose on homeopathic remedies; But why won't homeopathy skeptics drink their own medicine?

Pharmacogenomics, the next frontier in medicine?

Report: "Limited evidence" that Botox injections help migraines

Labours failure: Sleaze probe into 'misuse of millions' at Network Rail as it is claimed 'hush money bought off ex-staff'

Financial meltdown in 2008 down to greed and government incompetence (U.S. & U.K.)

Psychiatric diagnostic manual editor reveals its all bull***t - the emperor has no clothes

Common garden weed 'cures skin cancer', say scientists

How stopping smoking or drinking can help the 'Squeezed middle' offset a £2,800 tax hit

U.S. government launches pharmaceutical division

Drug companies panic as thirteen 'blockbuster' drugs about to lose patent protection

Another failure for AstraZeneca

Trouble for the Pharma industry as they search for new ways to work together

Pfizer's Deep Trouble - Will Pharmaceutical Industry be Able to Change?

Pfizer Pledges To Cut Research To Maintain Earnings

Placebo Effect Regularly Beats Pharmaceutical Drugs

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why

The Truth About Drug Companies

Health Advocacy Groups Take Drug Company Cash—Often Without Full Disclosures

Depression In Women Rampant - Most Feel Doctors Over-Prescribe Drugs

Strong painkillers increase risk of heart or stroke death: research

Cases dropped against malaria homeopaths

More Incompetence - Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson makes another gaffe on live TV as he blunders over National Insurance rate

Device 'cancels out the sound of the dentist's drill'

Weather control is no myth: Scientists engineer thunderstorms over Abu Dhabi

More Psychology and less Psychiatry - How the Government wants to change the way we think

The £10,000-a-week celebrity rehab clinic a judge said would shame the Third World

Why taking statins might be pointless - and even bad for you

Changing 'expert' advice, now sunbathing can be good for you, say health charities

EU regulator slams drug companies for putting profit before public health

If given a fair choice, most consumers would choose alternative medicine over conventional health care

Drug recalls surge as Big Pharma's dangerous medications are increasingly exposed

Drug giant Johnson & Johnson recalls 13 million boxes of Rolaids

Will we ever wake up to the deadly risks of anti-depressants?

Drug Company Used Ghostwriters to Write Work Bylined by Academics, Documents Show

Andrew Lansley rejects calls for funding ban on homeopathy

Ministers pledge £4bn to tackle smoking, drinking and obesity

Happy pills used by thousands 'raise the risk of heart disease'

Acupuncture is no placebo and does relieve pain, say scientists

Psychiatric researcher pleads guilty to research fraud

Suppression isn't cure

Media claim HRT 'brain boost' is unproven

Scientist's eureka moment that found a ‘cure' for Alzheimer's

PM urged to act on "Massive" rise in drug prices

This reform of NHS drug funding is not a sweet deal for big pharma

Many doctors still in bed with Big Pharma

Government website 'shifts powe to the people'

Statin drugs cause liver damage, kidney failure and cataracts, says BMJ

Higher US drug spending has not improved health

Over-prescribing is so rife that millions of us are given drugs we don't even need

Nice to lose powers to decide on new drugs

Placebo fraud rocks the very foundation of modern medical science; thousands of clinical trials invalidated

Ghostly medicine

Big Pharma researcher Dr Scott Reuben admits to faking dozens of research studies for Pfizer & Merck

GlaxoSmithKline whistleblower awarded $96m payout

Chemical cosh drugs to be cut by two thirds

Patients' anger after they are unable to opt out of swine flu vaccine despite fears of side effects

Labours centralised targets means 10,000 hip replacement patients told their operations may need to be reversed after receiving faulty implants as no one measured ‘outcomes’

Codeine painkillers may be 'unsafe, addictive and ineffective'

Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Limited Credentials

More drug companies exposed for paying off doctors to illegally prescribe drugs

Eczema cream meant to soothe 'makes skin WORSE'

Yoga 'provides pain relief for chronic muscle ache'

Antidepressant reboxetine no better than a placebo, study finds

Force drug makers to publish all clinical trials, says study

Public 'misled' by drug trial claims

‘Staggering & Massive' public waste costing millions

High-frequency sound speeds up healing of broken bones, study shows

Drugs giants cashing in by 'inventing' conditions like ‘low libido' label in women to sell more drugs

How the flimsiest medical data makes the headlines

Number of official warnings given to doctors rises by almost 50% in just two years

Antipsychotics drugs cause greater risk of blood clots

Avandia diabetes drug 'that raises risk of heart disease' is finally banned

How drug companies keep pushing their drugs

Cosmetic surgery industry in UK 'has key weaknesses'

Aspirin stops bowel cancer

Public sector riddled with the bone idle

The great public and private pay gulf - state workers get a lot more

The nightmare of giving up sleeping pills: One woman reveals her addiction battle

Up to 750,000 'special needs' pupils are just badly taught

Vitamin B halts memory loss in breakthrough British trial

Experts call for diabetes drug Avandia to be withdrawn due to heart attack risk

How vested interest blocked Thorium which could kill fossil fuels overnight

China bets on Thorium - brand new nuclear programme within 20 years

No way to dispense public money

Swine flu vaccine safety probed over link to rare sleep disorder

Coalition's £200m cancer drugs pledge is no more than an 'aspiration'

Aspirin during pregnancy could prevent pre-eclampsia in thousands of women, says NHS

Peony could ease side-effects for patients enduring chemotherapy

Drugs don't work: Top professor claims five in six new medicines have 'little benefit' to patients

India rejects UK scientists' 'superbug' claim

The European Medicines Agency forced to reveal secret data on drug side-effects

Aspirin 'cuts prostate cancer risk by 30%': A tablet a day helps stop killer tumours forming

Study debunks myth about delaying pregnancy after miscarriage

Secrets of the GSK drug trials

Drug safety crackdown revs up

Why antidepressants are simply a confidence trick: A leading psychologist claims taking sugar pills would work just as well

Obese? Just call them fat: Plain-speaking doctors will jolt people into losing weight, says minister

DoH commits to continue NHS funding of homeopathy

New mental health 'bible' will lead to almost everyone having a 'mental disorder', warn experts

Oil firm wins battle to identify chatroom users

Beware Articles Against Homeopathy- They Are Running Scared

More homeopathy on NHS to improve healthcare

A 'special needs' label on fifth of all children - double that of 20 years ago

I don't know how, but homeopathy really does work

90 percent of scientists backing Avandia diabetes drug had financial ties to drug companies

Legal charges drag GSK into the red for Q2

Glaxo pays £1.6bn charge for Avandia, Paxil

Glaxo Said to Pay $460 Million to 10,000 claimants to End Avandia Law Suits

Beware Articles Against Homeopathy- They Are Running Scared

David Cameron tells civil servants he wants to 'turn government on its head'

Never trust an expert!  Ever wondered why so much health advice is contradictory? It's because two-thirds of medical research is wrong or fraudulent

GPs 'should offer climate change advice to patients'

More conflicting medical advice - children are obese due to overfeeding NOT a lack of exercise, say scientists

MS patients denied pain-killing spray on NHS

Re-label homeopathic remedies as 'placebos' say doctors

Typical public sector waste

GW Pharmaceuticals launches world's first prescription cannabis drug in Britain

Concerns over Avandia Side Effects Prompt Critics to Call for Restructuring of the FDA

Shares down as German drugs gatekeeper rejects GSK's Avandia pill

Former City Minister Lord Myners attacks 'considerable waste' of his Labour government

Sea sponge breast cancer drug hope

Straight to the point: As scientists prove acupuncture DOES beat pain, why it might help you...

Antidepressants 'increase the risk of miscarriage by 68%'

Time to smash up this broken system

This painful price for 13 years of Labours' profligacy

Statins: The side effects 'are worse than feared'

Course of antibiotics 'can leave a patient resistant to that drug for up to a year'

Trial launched for £1 polypill that the NHS may offer to all over 50s

Foolish junior doctors condemn homeopathy as ‘witchcraft' and demand ban

UK doctors demand clinical trials research reform

Special Investigation: Why ARE so many doctors addicted to drink or drugs?

Psychiatrist who 'prescribed fatal cocktail of drugs profited by £1.2m from former debutante's will when she died'

Feds found Pfizer too big to nail for fraud so cut a deal

Pain specialists warn that drugs are often over-prescribed and not helping in the long term

Side-effect risk to millions who take unnecessary stomach drugs

Lifestyle interventions first step in treating childhood obesity (and other conditions)

Drug side effects "neglected, restricted, distorted and silenced" by drug companies

Deceit and sham: what history's verdict will be on 13 years of New Labour

Magnets could be new drug-free treatment for depression: research

Now Goldman Sachs faces U.S. criminal investigation into $1bn mortgage securities fraud

WHO issues warning about corruption of pharmaceutical industry

Is the new gene test just playing the averages? Scientist has every gene screened to show risk of catching disease

Hospitals are killing too many patients

Woman GP faces being struck off after 'getting hooked on DIY hangover cure she devised to combat drink problem'

Complementary flower remedy could revolutionise treatment of leukemia and other cancers

Broccoli could stop breast cancer spreading by targeting stem cells

The breakthrough 5-minute test to halt bowel cancer that could save thousands of lives

Whitehall 'wastes £9billion a year' on excessive and inefficient bureaucracy

Drug firms lose battle to prescribe cheaper drugs

Number of addicts on benefits double in 9 years to 100,000

Statins: Should YOU be taking them

Experiment shows how easy doctors prescribe drugs - are they just puppets?

FDA: Consumer Watchdog or Big Pharma Puppet?

Mephedrone ban proves politics has 'polluted' science: Lancet

Breakthrough British scientists - receive no support

Dieting without exercise 'will NOT help you lose weight'

Total abuse: Civil servants charged astonishing £1bn for taxi rides, restaurants and hotels to state credit cards

Ignored by the political process: Anguished letter to Brown and Cameron reveals devastating toll of immigration on schools, housing and hospitals

Another failed awareness campaign: Millions spent on 5-a-day mantra but now we're eating even LESS vegetables

Chant yourself healthy: Meditation hailed as antidote to high blood pressure and depression  

Five fruit and veg a day does not significantly reduce cancer risk: research

Why is your pharmacist fobbing you off with cheap copies of branded drugs?

Health cuts 'will put lives at risk' say doctors protesting against plan to axe jobs and wards

Herbalists to be regulated by Government for the first time

How drugs companies are turning personality traits into ailments

The other side of statins: doctors now fear for some, the side effects could be devastating

Britain 'turning to prescription drugs'

Pill-popper nation: Prescriptions soar as we pick up more than 16 EACH every year

MPs deliver damning verdict on PCT commissioning

Shamed NHS professor who stole £150,000 for secret sex and drug parties

£115m annual flu jab cost 'may be a waste of money'

Labour falls woefully short of ten-year target to halve teenage pregnancies

Homoeopathy remedies are no better than Smarties and should not be prescribed on NHS, say MPs

Another Drug Cover Up - Widely-used diabetes drug Avandia can cause heart disease and death

Avandia - US Senate Investigation Medical Fraud

No ban for "pay-for-delay" deals by big pharma firms

Agony of the very unlikely addicts: Thousands of over-60s are hooked on tranquillisers that have turned them into virtual zombies

Anxiety drugs like Valium are addictive in the same way as heroin, warn scientists

Eczema cream that could be making your skin worse

Just five vitamins may give cancer patients an extra two years

From hypersexuality to sluggish cognitive tempo disorder: The excuses for being lazy in new psychiatrist's 'Bible'

British patients 'struggling to get vital drugs because wholesalers exporting them abroad'

Fury as 48 key medicines run out because of shameless profiteering by drug companies

David Cameron to stop ex-ministers cashing in on lucrative lobbying jobs

Cameron aide who quit over expenses lands top lobby job

Shamed ex-health minister 'cash-for-lobbying' MP Patricia Hewitt 'set to join Eurotunnel'

Anti-depressant linked to breast cancer deaths

Swine flu advisers' ties to drug firms: Five WHO experts linked with vaccine producers

British taxpayers spent £1.2bn on the swine flu pandemic that never was

Swine flu risk 'was vastly over-rated' by World Health Organisation

The pandemic that never was: Drug firms 'encouraged world health body to exaggerate swine flu threat'

The great swine flu ripe off: How £300million was squandered on swine flu jabs that we didn't need and didn't even receive

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: The men who made a killing out of swine flu while we wasted £1bn and were exposed to harmful drugs

It's official, the swine flu 'pandemic' is over (shame it cost us £1billion)

Study finds just 1.2% of respondents are ‘internet addicts' but declares - 'Internet addiction' linked to depression

Lancet retracts MMR and autism research paper

Awareness campaigns don't work: as children taught sex education are more likely to have intercourse younger, says study

The Big Fat Lies about Britain 's obesity epidemic

'Inefficient and wasteful' scheme wasted millions and failed to cut sexually transmitted infections

Doctors' fury as NICE bans £2-a-day heart drug that could help 40,000 patients

Complaints against out of hours GPs rise by 50% in two years

Alternative medicine sales soar as consumers shake off cynicism

'Barmy ideas' of Brown's regime: Whitehall delivers damning report on PM's leadership

Drug firms 'drove swine flu pandemic warning to recoup £billions spent on research'

The 'false' pandemic: Drug firms cashed in on scare over swine flu, claims Euro health chief

Swine flu taskforce's links to vaccine giant: More than half the experts fighting the 'pandemic' have ties to drug firms

A £1bn dose of flu

Failed skills quango pays £30m bonuses while losing taxpayers hundreds of millions

Confused? Try our A-Z of conflicting medical advice

Another medical U-turn - Healthy people 'should not take aspirin to prevent heart attack'

Taxpayers give £20m benefits to Polish children

Drugs experts in mass resignation threat - no 'true scientist' can work for Home Secretary

Sacked for telling the Truth - Government drug expert quits

Copper bracelet arthritis cure is a myth, say scientists

Make laser cancer treatments a mainstream alternative demand experts

Why are cancer patients been told a proven treatment is ‘experimental or doesn't work'?

Patients to take control of personal budgets as pilots get underway

Cancer jabs programme is 'mass experiment' says researcher

Dr Richard Halvorsen: I'm not opposed to jabs but there are serious worries

Waiting times behind low ranking in EU healthcare index

REVEALED: The three TRILLION pounds Labour blew in 12 years of profligate spending

The hidden agenda – now Exposed - Labour's betrayal of British workers

NHS patients can reclaim private costs

Conservatives will set limits on NHS spending if they win election

Tough new controls for everyday painkillers that can become addictive after THREE days

Number of children on adult-only slimming pills soars

Another medical U turn – take asprin – don't take aspirin as trial casts doubt on aspirin guidance

Breast cancer 'wonder drug' actually increases risk of rare tumour by 440%

Quarter of a million people waiting more than 18 weeks for NHS treatment

1,000 cancer patient 'refused treatment'

'Worried well' are increasingly surfing Net for diagnosis rather than seeing GP

GPs to offer unfit patients prescriptions for the gym

Sick benefit people 'must exercise'

Care burden 'makes patients ill'

Tories team up with Google to let patients read their medical records online

Quango civil servant who's paid an astonishing £350,000 a year

Report warns how the rise of the quango 'costs each family £3,640 a year'

The quango gravy train

Labour has been 'maladroit' in immigration policy, admits Home Secretary Alan Johnson

The growing rate of open-door migration: Number of new arrivals has surged by 50% under Labour

Labour think-tank 'airbrushed link between migrants and crime in immigration report for Blair'

Labour 'deliberately let migrants in to make Britain more multicultural'

The outrageous truth slips out: Labour cynically plotted to transform the entire make-up of Britain without telling us

‘Unsustainable' £186 billion social security payouts 'equal to a quarter of goverment's budget'

The addiction ‘treatment' scandal

Labour's spin bill rockets by 43per cent to £540million in a single year

Just one in 10 NHS staff willing to have swine flu vaccine

So we're not all going to die of swine flu after all

Half of GPs refuse swine flu vaccine over testing fears

'Healthy' swine flu sufferers should NOT take Tamiflu: World Health Organisation rejects British advice

Tamiflu puts 600,000 at greater risk of a stroke

Swine flu: more than 400 cases of Tamiflu side effects

Research has cast doubt on the policy of giving antiviral drugs to children for swine flu

Swine flu drug Tamiflu 'a danger to children' and should not be given to them, expert warns

Fears rise over side effects of Tamiflu as cases of adverse reactions double in a week

Children treated with Tamiflu suffer side effects including nightmares and nausea

'Dangers' of the fast-track swine flu vaccine

Swine flu vaccine will not be fully tested before use

Safety fears over swine flu jab

Drug firm charges NHS £6 for swine flu vaccine that costs £1 to make

Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline could be set for swine flu financial boost

Swine Flu, Its all about the MONEY as Europe prepares for swine flu pandemic

Swine flu vaccine to net Glaxo £1.8bn

How Russian breakthrough technology is being used to spot impending disease

Take big Cabinet jobs away from politicians, urges business guru Lord Digby Jones

Incompetant Ministers - Jacqui Smith: I'd never run a thing before the Home Office

Ministers out of touch: Four out of five Britons want immigration capped, poll shows

Civil servant forced to lie for the government

Cover-up denied after report claims MoD is squandering billions

'The medical myth of the chemical cure'

Drug industry keen on new NHS trials ‘Innovation Pass'

Breakthrough medicines to bypass NICE approval

Pilot Scheme see Arthritic knee pain eased with electrically charged needles

Can vitamin C injections help to beat shingles?

We ALL have cancer

Third of women with breast cancer 'don't need treatment'

Cervical smear surgery 'given needlessly' to women with borderline results

Harriet Harman defends £5.9m bid to cut teen pregnancies

Awareness campaigns don't work as £6m drive to cut teen pregnancies sees them DOUBLE

£150m childcare pilot scheme for two-year-olds is a flop

Failed awareness campaign - Stabbing deaths rise during high-profile £12million anti-knife campaign

NHS recommends pupils have an 'orgasm a day' to reduce risk of heart attack and stroke

How do drug firms influence doctors to give you those happy pills?

Experimental drug saves two men with inoperable prostate cancer

Damning report reveals NHS Agenda For Change that cost tens of billions hasn't resulted in better productivity

How the humble hydrangea shrub could hold the key to curing MS, diabetes and arthritis

BBC's £1m backdown in libel fight with IVF doctor

Sedatives and sleeping pills raise suicide risk in the elderly FOUR fold, researchers warn

MPs branded liars by 76% of public as Brown is warned of 'lowest ever' support for Labour

New cost-cutting NHS guidelines on back pain 'could lead to more surgery'

Patients to trial personal budgets in up to half of PCTs

Acupuncture is 'better at beating a bad back than conventional treatments'

Is Prescription Drug Addiction is caused by Medical Arrogance?

Alcoholics and drug addicts told to sober up and get clean or lose their benefits

Big drug companies have no interested 'magic bullet' pill

Billions of pounds spent on fight against cancer have failed to significantly improve survival rates

Statins are the new NHS wonder but do they have sinister side-effects?

Concerns over safety of cervical cancer vaccine after 1,300 girls experience adverse side-effects

Millions of patients prescribed unnecessary pills because of 'tick-box culture', says expert

Queen's doctor warns of homoeopathy crisis

Deaths from hospital blunders soar 60% in two years as NHS staff 'abandon quality of care to chase targets'

NHS patients are cheated by £100m a year extra for their dental work

Insane: Professor risks fury with call for healthy adults to use Ritalin

GPs 'are focusing on patients who bring in bonuses', claims Civitas report

GPs 'waste' £100m NHS fund set aside for local care, study finds

Our health service is now worse than Estonia's

Chemotherapy can do more harm than good, study suggests

Hope for others as NHS rips up drug rules to give dying patients better final weeks of life

Three NHS  trusts to be sued by cancer sufferers who have had to pay for their own drugs

'Inefficient & bureaucratic' NHS blamed for cancer drug bans

Biotech cash crunch threatens new medicines: UK expert

Brain stimulator treats depression by beaming magnetic pulses through the skull

Drug companies 'bankrolling charity campaigns for NHS cancer & other treatments'

Charities lobby Nice over cancer drug

How sick! GPs paid bonus to NOT send you to hospital

NHS to let patients self-refer for therapy care

Drug giants spending millions on doctors perks

MPs attack doctors' pay rises for less work

Drug Company Funding of Drug Trials Greatly Influences Outcome

Drug firms' lobby tactics revealed

Addiction Today Survey: Doctors speak out on the scale of the alcohol & drug problem

Demand For Clinical Trials To Check Drugs Against Natural Remedies & Placebo's

Wild plants are now being harnessed for new wonder drugs

'St John's Wort as effective as Prozac for treating depression', say scientists

Forget ADHT - a stroll in the park is as good at calming children as Ritalin, study finds

Lawyers make £3million every week out of NHS blunders

One in 300 NHS patients killed by avoidable blunders

Dentists 'giving patients pointless check-ups to exploit NHS payouts'

Cash-strapped hospitals paying £1,300 a day for temporary boss

Fed-up senior doctor quits £100,000 NHS job to become a hairdresser

What alternative medicine has known for 30 years: Vitamin C jabs 'trigger fightback against cancer'

The bug that can blast away cancer: Drug made from virus extends patients' lives

Hope for arthritis vaccine 'cure' funded by The Arthritis Research Campaign

Hope for breast cancer sufferers as cut-price drug 'stops it in its tracks'

The catch-all cancer drug to target every type of tumour

Drinking fruit juice 'may stop medication working'

Glaxo chief admits: Our 90% of drugs do not work on most patients

Not getting any better? You may need medicines made just for you

Cholesterol pill warning: Scientists raise fears of cancer link to statin used by thousands

Flu jab that costs £115m a year does not cut death rate in elderly

'Greedy bosses make drugs too dear', claims NICE chief Professor Sir Michael Rawlins

How doctors are turning millions of us INTO addicts

GPs 'hook millions on prescription drugs'

Experts find fertility drugs don't work and cannot beat Mother Nature

60% of patients endorse alternative treatments

Why the medical profession are the biggest threat to YOUR health

Why do doctors kill more people than airline pilots?

Drug watchdog NICE 'spends more on 'spin' than tests on new treatments'

'Bullying, ignorant and patronising': NICE under attack

Arrogant, illogical and totally out of touch, NICE must be scrapped ...it's killing too many people

Too Late - NICE boss says sorry for delays in sight-saving drugs

Why have NICE approved a weight-loss drug banned in America over suicide fears?

Banned: Slimming drug linked to suicide is taken off the shelves 4 months after NICE approval

NICE must throw open the files on Alzheimer drug ruling

Around 80% of drugs fail at clinical trials

Growing numbers of pharmaceutical companies are halting trials as 80% of drugs fail stage III trials

Perhaps we need less medicine, not more

Drugs companies build up fear for profit, argues GP

An education trial of just 3 pupils hailed a success by Government ministers

Charity gives Aids orphans just £84,000 after raising £1.1m

No prosecution on suicide-risk drug

NHS faces spiral of decline, says think tank

Diabetes self-tests 'no benefit' to patients, only drug companies

Around 70 per cent of GPs feel complementary medicine should be freely available

Drug companies attacked over gifts for doctors

Appliance of science proves complementary

Co-ordinated campaign to derail alternative therapies on the NHS

Talk therapy for the depressed 'could be wasting millions', say psychotherapists

Are we being hoodwinked by alternative medicine? Two scientists examine the evidence

Problems with clinical trials and evidence based medicine

Drug trials are over too soon, warn doctors

Alternative treatments do work

GPs vote of 'no confidence' for Hewitt and the Government's running of the NHS

Call for Clinical Trials Registry Gaining Momentum

Don't be yet another victim of your doctor's ignorance

Coma victim able to speak again after pioneering magnetic field therapy

The revolutionary window that could wipe out nuisance noise

New 'sleep machine' could signal the end of insomnia

Cancer breakthrough as ultraviolet light is used to destroy tumours