Now you see it, now you don’t

Pictures of models and celebrities are routinely altered to rid them of every 'flaw'. So much so, that when a woman with a tummy appeared in a US fashion magazine it attracted global attention. Could the airbrushers' days finally be numbered?

Taxes on heavily-sweetened foods should be raised, study suggests

Research group's report calls for state and local governments to take action against obesity

Weightloss pill investigated for liver damage

Slimming drug, sold over the counter as Alli, investigated in the US after 32 reports of serious liver injury

Dying for affordable healthcare — the uninsured speak

Ed Pilkington travels to Quindaro, Kansas, to see how the poorest survive without healthcare provision

Popcorn and cereals – the new superfoods?

Scientists discover surprisingly high levels of health-boosting antioxidants in 'junk' food

This NHS row is paralysing progress

Zack Cooper: The US and UK should stop focusing on what's wrong with each other's healthcare and work out what they can teach each other

Thank heaven for the NHS

Michele Hanson: How dare the Republicans bad-mouth our free healthcare system? If I'd been born in the US, I'd probably be dead by now

Is public healthcare in the UK as sick as rightwing America claims?

Denis Campbell and Girish Gupta assess the claims made by rightwing Americans about the failings of the NHS

‘Evil and Orwellian’ – America’s right turns its fire on NHS

The NHS has become the butt of increasingly outlandish political attacks in the US as Republicans and conservative campaigners rail against Britain's 'socialist' system

George Bush’s sex education failure

Melissa McEwan: Teenage pregnancies and STDs in the US are on the rise again, thanks to George Bush's abstinence-only obsession

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