Councils across England and Wales issue warnings about the dangers of inhaling laughing gas.
As patients criticise the decision not to approve breast cancer drug Kadcyla, Dr Rav Seeruthun, spokesman for drug company Roche, dismisses criticism of its high price, and damns the approval process.
Healthy people should be encouraged to take a daily dose of aspirin to ward off cancer, says a detailed new study highlighting the benefits of the household drug.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt wants hospitals to carry out 100,000 extra operations over the summer to try and clear the backlog. But what procedures have the highest waiting times?
Scientists say a landmark project to map the DNA of tens of thousands of patients could revolutionise cancer treatment and consign chemotherapy and its debilitating side effects to medical history.
More than 10 per cent of people who to see a GP cannot get an appointment, with doctors turning away their patients more than 40 million times this year, according to new figures.
Victoria Macdonald
It’s not often that I feel sorry for a politician. But today I do feel a wee bit sorry for former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, whose dreams of being EU commissioner have been crushed.
David Cameron’s reshuffle is an attempt to make a fundamental change in how the Conservatives are perceived by voters, says Paul Mason.
Jackie Long
With the assisted dying bill due to be debated on Friday, what impact will Lord Carey’s controversial intervention make?
As NHS advisory body Nice advises more surgery to combat obesity, C4 talks to journalist Sarah Boseley, surgeon Professor Sir Steve Bloom, and Emma Burnell, who lost seven stone after gastric surgery.
Hundreds of thousands more overweight people with type 2 diabetes should be offered weight-loss surgery like gastric bands on the NHS, says draft guidance from Nice.
Victoria Macdonald
The clamour is growing for something to be done about the NHS – through extra taxes, paying to see your GP, reconfiguring services, better use of technologies, more care in the community.
A process that could see private companies running cancer care and end of life services in Staffordshire has been condemned by the union Unison, but is it really the thin end of the wedge?
Labour goes on the attack over the government’s handling of the NHS, but David Cameron says things are improving. FactCheck gets its scalpel out.
The rise in antibiotic resistance, and lack of new drugs to cope, is set to be a disaster for humanity – or that is what many scientists warn. And now David Cameron might prevent it (yes, really).