Category: health

A Slow-Burning Scandal

The government refuses to act on toxic flame retardants in our bedding and furnishings.

In 1976, we ate more than we do today. So why are we fatter?

The wonderful things I learnt during my treatment for prostate cancer

I have prostate cancer, but I’m happy. Here’s how.

A remarkable experiment suggests that emergency admissions to hospital can be reduced by tackling loneliness

Who is most responsible for high abortion rates? The religious right.

Pollution, as scandals on both sides of the Atlantic show, is a physical manifestation of corruption.

New evidence suggests that obesity might be incurable. So why does the government propose to punish sufferers?

Is life extension science an astonishing promise or an astonishing threat? Or both?

How the media gives Big Tobacco everything it wants.

Why do we transfer the real health risks inflicted by coal onto nuclear energy?

Who killed the plan for cigarettes to be sold only in plain packets?

Could an astonishing explanation for the rise and fall of violent crime be correct?

The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and growing.

Why have successive governments been waging war on one of the world’s best health systems?

The level of excess winter deaths in the UK is higher than Siberia’s. This is why.

While pressing Stewart Brand to admit he was wrong, it seems that I might have stumbled across a new tactic in the corporate propaganda war.

Despite challenging the environmental movement to admit when it gets things wrong, he seems unable to do so himself.

Here are the emails Stewart Brand and I have sent to each other

The government’s disastrous new deregulation programme means that the poor will be fouled by the rich.