Wellbeing

France says au revoir to public smoking

This week’s restrictions are the latest step towards the country’s target of creating a tobacco-free generation by 2032

Supermarkets to get healthy eating targets under government’s obesity plan

Wes Streeting says retailers can help nudge people in right direction and drive ‘transformational’ change

‘Skin hunger’ is a touchy subject

‘Skin hunger’ is a sensation felt from a lack of physical contact. But platonic touch is not an easy need to get met…

KKR’s bid for NHS landlord exposes City’s vulnerability

Private equity’s battle to acquire Assura is the latest example of companies snapping up discounts on the UK stock exchange

A compassionate society does not suggest death as an answer

MPs have had their say on this divisive issue, but many people across the country will be unhappy and worried about their future

People now have the right not to suffer

The passing of the assisted dying bill gives us all self-determination in alleviating the pain we might be living through and shortening our death

Why the Aids quilt is a stitch in time

The UK Aids Memorial Quilt of the 1980s is still so impactful to see – and a timely reminder that the best way to challenge stigma is to show, not tell

The risks and realities of cryotherapy

In early April, two women died in a cryotherapy unit at a Paris gym. What happened? And why is cryotherapy still so popular?

Want a happy life? Avoid medical tests

Private clinics offer to replace present happiness only with distant misery, says Melanie Reid

‘I don’t think I can do it’: Mina Holland on mothering a seriously ill child

By the time she learnt of her daughter’s illness, motherhood was already a dark space… But there was light ahead

When our brains go wrong

In The Mind Electric, neurologist Pria Anand shares her own story and those of her patients to reveal the fragile nature of what it means to be human

NHS England pauses AI project fed with health data

Why banning disposable vapes might not work

It might not work and could have unintended consequences

Allen Carr’s 1980s book is now helping vapers kick nicotine

For 40 years, Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking has helped thousands kick the habit. But as Elle Hunt found out, its ‘method’ can still make you breathe easy

Mushrooms, menopause and me

Psychedelics have been found to combat depression and anxiety. Can they expand the post-menopausal mind?

‘Without memory and words, what is left?’

As a writer, words mean everything, but facing her own memory loss gives an author an unexpected insight into what it means to be the person she is

Eva Wiseman: ‘Can we be too aware of mental health?’

Are you aware of mental health? Yes? That’s good. We are all very aware of mental health. But now that we are, isn’t the bigger question: what are we doing about it?

Joel Golby: Men, masculinity and Mounjaro

More and more men are choosing to use weight-loss drugs. Why?