Public health

Britain uses price to discourage unhealthy consumption. TWIS asks whether government has properly modelled the NHS value of making healthier food cheaper too.

People in England are living longer on average, but healthy life expectancy has declined and the deprivation gap is about twenty years.

A plain-language explanation of how cancer develops, why smoking, alcohol, food, movement, UV, infections and pollution affect risk, and where personal responsibility ends and collective power begins.

Measles is preventable, but prevention fails when vaccination access, recall systems, public information, local outreach, trust and healthcare triage do not join up.

Daraxonrasib produced a major survival gain in a phase 3 pancreatic cancer trial, but the drug is still investigational and UK patients cannot assume NHS access yet.