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Could a tax on chocolate make us healthy? Let’s not be too hasty

26 April 2018

Doctors are calling for an expansion of sugar taxes to include sweets and cakes, but we don’t yet know whether higher prices will lead to improved health

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Novichok attack tests the world's chemical weapons treaty

27 March 2018

We have the international tools to resolve uncertainties over the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal – but they will only work if Russia cooperates

Why the UK's new opt-out organ donation plan probably won't work

26 February 2018

Plans for the whole of the UK to shift to a system where consent for organ donation is assumed may actually do very little to save lives

Fears of Brexit chaos for medicines agency should worry us all

8 February 2018

Fresh turmoil threatens to worsen disruption of the European Medicines Agency when it quits the UK after Brexit. That should worry all parties, says Inga Vesper

A grim winter looms for UK hospitals but there's an easy cure

28 November 2017

Winter crises grip the UK health system with worrying predictability and this year’s could be severe. We can move beyond this seasonal chaos, says Luke Allen

Brexiteers must not risk UK’s nuclear future by leaving Euratom

12 July 2017

If the UK leaves Europe’s nuclear regulator when it quits the EU, it risks disrupting nuclear fuel supplies and even cancer treatments, warns Alex Connor

Nigel Dodds and Arlene Foster, DUP deputy leader and leader

Five things you need to know about DUP politicians and science

9 June 2017

Democratic Unionist Party politicians have voiced controversial views on climate change, HIV and creationism. Here’s what they’ve said on some key issues