Buy one, get one free offers fuelling crack cocaine boom, says report
Crack use beginning to become 'more acceptable, even fashionable' among groups who would not previously have taken it, report says
Why women are reluctant to get a cervical screening test
Screenings could prevent 80 per cent of cervical cancer deaths. But a decade after the ‘Jade Goody effect’, the number of women going for a test is lower than ever. Rachael Revesz speaks to women and doctors about why this is happening
Why your joints pop and crack
We all crack our joints, but it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Rebecca Shepherd and Adam Taylor explain when you should and should not be worried about that popping noise
Baby boomers are more likely to drink and drive than millennials
People over the age of 50 are more likely to risk drinking and driving than those aged 16-19, says Tony Rao
Breast cancer test can 'predict chances of disease return 20 years on'
'Molecular nature of a woman’s breast cancer determines how their disease could progress, not just for the first five years, but also later,' says researcher
Quarter of deaths linked to environmental harm and pollution, UN says
‘Do we continue on our current path, which will lead to a bleak future for humankind, or do we pivot to a more sustainable development pathway? That is the choice our political leaders must make, now’
720,000 more adults may need blood pressure pills, guidelines say
Doctors concerned about over diagnosis and harm from side effects say change ‘must not be taken lightly’
Women ‘paying highest price’ for Tory’s failure to deliver social care
‘I don’t think there’s a day gone by in the last three years where I’ve not sat there and cried my eyes out,’ says Sarah, one of the sandwich carers who is looking after her parents while raising two children