By drawing on the power of technology, policymakers have the potential to reduce the UK's stark health inequalities and save lives.

Imagine being able to get a timely diagnosis, be prescribed personalised treatments and experience few, if any, side effects.

Bayer's CardioRenal Business Manager, Reena Cholera, explains how our health services can improve the prevention of diabetic kidney disease.

Successive governments have sought to reduce obesity through 14 strategies over 30 years – all of which have failed to fix the broken food system.

40 Parliamentarians from 24 countries call on G7 leaders to invest in neglected tropical diseases.

Problem gambling rates in England ‘appear to be falling’ according to a new NHS Health Survey, published today.

WSP’s UK Head of Healthcare, Anisha Mayor, sets out the case in favour of moving to a standard design for future hospitals.

In the United Kingdom over 1.25 million people suffer with anorexia or bulimia, more than one million have body dysmorphic disorder and between 500,000 and one million people use anabolic steroids.

In the midst of a crisis facing our health service, with record waits for operations, long delays in A&E and strikes not seen in generations, it could be easy for public health interventions to take a back seat. But the difference interventions such as the Soft Drinks Industry Levy can make are significant.

In the second of a series of articles following the publication of Hologic’s report into Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, ‘The right patients, the right setting, the right clinicians’, Sarah Smith reflects on how we can better give women the space to talk about, and receive treatment for, challenging menstrual health conditions.

From being a talented musician to fighting to save children from the horrors of genocide, Dr Rosena Allin-Khan has led many lives. Now shadow mental health minister, she talks to Zoe Crowther about her latest mission: to end the crisis facing mental health services in the NHS. Photography by Baldo Sciacca

Nurses in England have rejected the government’s offer of a pay rise and will go back out on strike later this month, it has been announced.

Funding for prevention should reflect the scale of the problem.

As London Marathon’s longest continual sponsor, Lucozade Sport is proud to be sponsoring the TCS London Marathon yet again as the brand’s owner, Suntory Beverage & Food GB&I (SBF GB&I) calls for Government to further promote sport participation and physical activity in deprived communities.

The other day my NCT group were visiting a cafe popular with parents and babies in Hammersmith. My friend Rachel, a GP, arrived with her baby who needs a nappy change. “I don’t think they have a changing station here," another mum says. So Rachel had to change her baby on the bathroom floor.

Imagine sitting in a room with your clinical team, there to help you recover from an eating disorder, but being told you aren’t working hard enough.

Sight loss is something that I live with, along with over two million others in the United Kingdom.

The year began with the highest levels of industrial action in decades, with nurses, junior doctors, ambulance workers, rail operators, teachers, university staff, and civil servants shivering on the picket lines in their fight for improved pay and conditions – sometimes almost all at once.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) is holding an Emergency Care Crisis Summit on Tuesday 28th March, 15.30-17.00 in the Attlee Room, House of Lords. The event will aim to build political support to tackle the crisis facing our emergency care system.

Junk food culture mean Brits eat more ultra-processed than real food.

The UK will only achieve the goal of becoming a science and technology superpower if there is a strong pipeline of talent to fast track growth.

The Government has launched its UK Science and Technology Framework in its latest bid to make the UK a global ‘powerhouse’ of research. Its publication signals a welcome commitment to research and development – but is the wider policy environment geared towards delivering the outcomes that ministers want to achieve?

This International Women’s Day, Bayer UK’s Romika Purwaha sets out how the Government can improve access to women’s reproductive healthcare services and contraception.

We have an unmissable opportunity to support our young people this year.