Legendary chemist, psychedelic adventurer and author passed away June 2nd.
New NHS boss Simon Stevens may support smaller District General Hospitals - but do the regulators march to the same tune?
Manufacturers aim to reap maximum profit in the minimal time before it is banned, so poorly developed NPS are thrown on the market in vast quantities with little regard to their effects. Meanwhile, prohibition simply forces a black market.
The collapse of the USSR was the occasion for much rejoicing. But 25 years later, there is not much to cheer about.
38 Degrees are working with Baroness Finlay to amend the hospital closure clause in its final Lords debate to give some power back to local commissioners.
In a Daily Mail campaign the Prime Minister deploys his personal tragedy and patronises health care workers as 'angels in aprons'. Misleading rhetoric provides cover for Cameron's legislative demolition of the NHS.
The hospital closure clause returns for its final stages in the Lords on 7 May. Lord Phil Hunt writes here about the safeguards he is trying to introduce by amendment.
Releasing patients' medical data to police, even when 'pseudonymised', would have massive implications for public health.
Substance abuse has less to do with the substance than it has to do with the lives we live. But what has the War on Drugs done to us, and what will follow it?
The Volga Car Factory in Togliatti is the biggest in Russia. The management recently announced 7,500 redundancies, all before the end of the year. How are the city and its inhabitants coping? на русском языке
The public will not fall for the government's deception over the hospital closure clause - even if MPs have.