| Alcohol
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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