Category: health

Willy Loman Syndrome

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

The Holy Father is responsible for the deaths of thousands

The US government is trying to destroy South Africa’s AIDS prevention programme

Britain’s public health policies stop where corporate interests begin.

The poor are dying younger because they are being systematically poisoned

The Private Finance Initiative is forcing doctors to work dangerously long hours

Traffic pollution might be responsible for the surge in both blindness and lung cancer

The corporate capture of the National Health Service means that it can only shrink, not grow.

30,000 old people are dying of cold each year, and the Government does nothing

The thousands of extra deaths each winter are just one symptom of a massive national housing crisis