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Obesity: How can governments best combat rising rates?
Could authorities draw on the success of the UK’s tax on sweetened drinks – known as the sugar tax – and rethink consumption taxes across all foods to encourage people towards healthier diets?
Social media anxiety: what doctors can do to help
An interdisciplinary team from Imperial College London has developed a framework that addresses how primary healthcare can play a key role in solving social media-related anxiety.
How parental unemployment impacts children’s health in the long run
Children with jobless parents are likelier to experience ill health when they become adults. Understanding how children are affected at different ages and how gender and education affect outcomes can help policymakers improve lives and cut spending.
Post-Brexit medicine approvals: what we know
Has the UK fulfilled its ambition to break free from Brussels and give patients faster access to new drugs as they emerge? Or has Brexit only increased red tape and made the UK a less attractive market for innovation?
How to create effective health taxes and change human behaviour
A new book from Imperial Business School's Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation and the World Health Organization proposes a new role for health taxes tells us exactly why policymakers should care about health taxes