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A tax on sugar-sweetened drinks will become law in the UK from April next year, following the government’s publishing of draft legislation this week. There will be two bands –…

Tobacco has been in the news again with a major cigarette manufacturer saying they are launching a new, less harmful cigarette in the UK and three tobacco companies losing their…

Despite promised increases in funding, mental health trusts are still suffering cuts, say every former health secretary in the past 20 years, urging Theresa May to honour David Cameron’s pledge…

Smartphones – once they were novel and not everyone had one. But now, according to a report by Deloitte, people in the UK have never been more addicted to their…

Next month the NHS yet again launches its Stopober campaign – aimed at getting people not to smoke for 28 days and thereby increasing the chances of them giving up…

Smartphones, say some, are addictive and we should be warned against regular use. So, should the smartphone industry be worried? Analyst Ben Wood from CCS Insight does not think so….

Effective use of clinical hypnotherapy could be the answer to government cuts to public health funding which, say local councils in England, will hamper their efforts to tackle obesity. Local…

Being overweight or obese puts men at a greater risk of dying prematurely than women, the largest-ever study on obesity and death suggests. According to the BBC, scientists say, while…

This century has led to the distracted generations, wasting hours a day checking irrelevant emails and intrusive social media accounts. And this ‘always on’ culture – exacerbated by the smart…

Uniform packaging rules for tobacco were introduced this week (May 20) after a legal challenge against the new law was dismissed by the High Court. Under the new regulations, all…