Last rites? Supermarkets’ annual Easter egg bonanza to end Shoppers may soon have to hunt for chocolate eggs as anti-obesity law dictates how and where unhealthy foods can be sold
Headaches: are you one of the one in six people suffering today? Study finds 7% of global population experience migraine and 9% a tension-type headache on any given day
Mothers and newborns kept apart unnecessarily in hospital due to Covid Birth charities call for update of ‘draconian’ rules that isolate maternity patients from babies and leave women traumatised
South Korea should fund hair loss treatment, says election hopeful in bald bid for power Proposal for hair regrowth on public healthcare insurance by Lee Jae-myung criticised as populist by opponents
Anti-obesity scheme to offer voucher rewards for healthy living Government to launch pilot in England in January, aimed at motivating people to lose weight
Spike by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja; and Vaxxers by Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green – review Two urgent and fascinating accounts from the frontlines show how scientists succeeded, and failed, at saving us from Covid-19
Thousands of work-related Covid deaths going unreported, says TUC Unions believe data showing just 2.5% of working-age Covid deaths are work-related is ‘not credible’
Coronavirus: tips for a safer Christmas Well-ventilated homes, guest cutlery, picnics and deferral until midsummer among advice for tweaking the traditional festival
Overstretched health visitors caring for up to 2,400 families each Exclusive: health chief fearful over impact of a lack of visits for newborns in England
Hundreds of thousands of students in Scotland banned from socialising Student union says move disregards mental health and ‘applies different rules from the rest of the adult population’