How do you rank on personal hygiene?

Nothing turns off potential bosses like bad habits, a survey shows. But are they any better themselves?

Social care recipients to control their personal budgets

Government to announce expansion of scheme from November, giving patients total autonomy over payments

Illegal tooth-whitening products still available online despite warnings

Potentially harmful products still available on Amazon and eBay despite agreement to remove listings following a Which? report

Bogus insurance claims hit record high

Figures from the Association of British Insurers reveal that 122,000 fraudulent insurance claims were uncovered last year at a value of £840m

Private health insurance takes a dive

Record numbers are choosing not to renew their policies, report shows

Fear of insurance penalties keeps Huntington’s sufferers in the shadows

The neurodegenerative disease is said to affect seven people in 100,000, but experts believe the proportion is higher

British dentistry is in a painful state

Dental treatment is a lottery in which consumers are nearly always the losers

China suicides show the terrible toll that stress can take

Stephen Bevan: For some, work can resemble a living hell - and this is true in the west as well as in China

The general practitioner: Patient minded

Over 30 years, Judith Yates has met generations of families at her inner-city surgery. But her next appointment is with retirement, she tells Graham Snowdon

How to survive workplace stress in the recession

Stress is on the rise, due to the recession. Emine Saner hears how to survive job insecurity, huge workloads and those very long hours