Category: health

Sending Off the Ref

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

Rising rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the United States are the result of programmes intended to stamp them out.

The UN’s proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive

What more can the government shut down? Oh yes, doctors’ surgeries.

Beware of privatisation schemes dressed up as customer choice.

Religious conservatives are responsible for high abortion rates

Wherever you hear the words “free market”, you’ll find massive state handouts to corporations

Even in the rich nations, the babymilk manufacturers are undermining breastfeeding

The G8 has the interests of the rest of the world at heart – until they conflict with its own.

Young people are being torn apart by the gulf between expectation and reality. Is it any wonder that rates of mental illness are rising?

Why are we still exposed to pollution that kills 39,000 a year?

The Labour Party has 24 hours to save the National Health Service

Refute these charges, or admit that the private finance initiative is built on fraud and false accounting

Money is being siphoned out of our new hospitals before they receive a single patient

Mark Purdey’s explanation of the origins of BSE is gathering weight

Older mothers have been judged an offence against Nature

Gulf war veterans deserve better treatment and we need honesty.

Why are the government and the big charities ignoring the environmental causes of cancer?

But so subtly that even ministers don’t seem to know what’s going on

The public health emergency no one has noticed