From the BBC ... Rising levels of obesity and unhealthy weights could be linked to 670,000 extra cases of cancer in the next 20 years,...

The Times came out in support of a sugar tax yesterday. No great surprise. The newspaper has been weirdly obsessed with sugar for a couple ...

Just before Christmas I mentioned the 'error' in an academic study which led the press to report that 70 per cent of A & E atte...

An article appeared on the front page of the Scotsman on Sunday which was unusual in containing absolutely nothing that supported its openi...

Will we look back on 2015 as the year when the pretend public health lobby jumped the shark and went too far? They certainly tested the cred...

Two articles today help bring a mad year to an end with some suitably dire science. The first will ensure that thousands of people keep smo...

How to cope with an ageing population is one of the crucial economic questions of our time, but you would hardly guess it from the lack of ...