Do hay fever tablets shrink your brain?
A new study suggests that some popular medicines – including allergy pills – could be harmful. But wait before you sneeze your way through the summer …
NHS England stalls plans for HIV prevention method known as PrEP
Consultation on Truvada will now be shelved, in move sexual health charities have described as ‘shameful’ and ‘failing those at risk’ of HIV
The poppers ban is a veiled attack on pleasure
Whatever the reasoning behind the ban under the new act, it is fundamentally flawed. Alkyl nitrites are among the safest drugs we know
The poppers ban: will it criminalise gay users?
More than 2m bottles of poppers are sold legally every year – and Yorkshire is the centre of the trade. How is one factory preparing for the ban?
Guns, car crashes and drugs cut US male life expectancy by a year, research says
Gun injuries alone shorten American men’s lives by more than five months, according to CDC research letter as experts reject ‘paralysis’ on issue
Can smartphone drug trials improve medical care?
A new clinical trial is attempting to track how participants suffering from depression respond to mental health apps
The chefs’ guide to life: how I recovered from drug addiction
Phil Howard, the chef and co-owner of The Square, Mayfair on life and work after quitting crack cocaine
Gonorrhoea could become untreatable, says chief medic
Dame Sally Davies asks GPs and pharmacies to ensure they are prescribing correct drugs after 16 cases of drug-resistant strain of STI this year
Night milk: milk taken from cows at night might be the sleep aid you need
Sedative effects of night milk have not been tested on people but the high amounts of tryptophan and melatonin suggest it may be healthier than Ambien
NHS urged to respond to growing health dangers of chemsex
Gay men describe how they became dependent on heavy drug use at group sex parties, as alarm is raised over lack of coordinated response
Chemsex: how dangerous is it?
People have been mixing sex and stimulants since Roman times and before. But the growing phenomenon of chemsex – the taking of a cocktail of drugs and having sex for up three days with multiple partners – is leading to a huge rise in sexually transmitted diseases
One in three gym users take drugs or supplements to lose weight – study
One in 20 use amphetamine for same purpose, survey reveals, with many feeling pressured to achieve a certain body image
Drug allegedly used as poison by serial killer suspect led to 20 deaths in 2014
GHB, the psychoactive drug popular within gay ‘chemsex’ scene, is easy to overdose on and responsible for growing list of fatalities, experts warn
If drug addiction were treated like other diseases my son might be alive today
I survived breast cancer, but my son died at the age of 26 because those struggling with addiction do not receive the care they need
Narcolepsy cases linked to flu vaccine subject to new compensation dispute
Lawyers dispute claims over Pandemrix swine flu vaccine which was withdrawn after doctors noticed rise in narcolepsy cases