health and wellbeing

David Baddiel: 'My worst moment was telling my dad my mum died. I had to tell him again and again'
Dementia

David Baddiel: 'My worst moment was telling my dad my mum died. I had to tell him again and again'

Hundreds of ex-rugby players with brain injury demand answers: 'One hit could kill them'
Alix Popham tackles Argentina’s Juan Martin at an international in Cardiff, 2007. Image: Matt Dunham / AP Photo / Alamy
Contact sports

Hundreds of ex-rugby players with brain injury demand answers: 'One hit could kill them'

‘I was diagnosed with dementia almost a decade ago but life is for the living. You can’t hold back’ 
Olive Munro and her husband Ronnie. Image: Alzheimer's Research UK
Dementia

‘I was diagnosed with dementia almost a decade ago but life is for the living. You can’t hold back’ 

Meet Wispy, the AI assistant helping people with dementia live independently
Carole Greig tries the CrossSense glasses, which uses audio and text to help wearers with dementia
Technology

Meet Wispy, the AI assistant helping people with dementia live independently

Want to help the families of people with dementia? Here’s what to do
Alzheimer's patient Caroline and husband and carer John
Dementia

Want to help the families of people with dementia? Here’s what to do

Bonnie Oddie: 'There's no one-size-fits-all answer to assisted dying'
Theatre

Bonnie Oddie: 'There's no one-size-fits-all answer to assisted dying'

Our dementia research is bringing new hope for a cure – and already changing lives
Larry Woelk, who has mild cognitive impairment, and wife Rita
Advertorial

Our dementia research is bringing new hope for a cure – and already changing lives

Inside the Big Issue: I am Still Me
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: I am Still Me

NEET numbers fall but young people still face jobs crisis: 'This is not a turning point'
people walking
NEETs

NEET numbers fall but young people still face jobs crisis: 'This is not a turning point'

Energy bills to rise to highest level in three years leaving households facing 'brutal winter'
a person turning a thermostat on a radiator
Energy Bills

Energy bills to rise to highest level in three years leaving households facing 'brutal winter'

Reform wants to slash £50 billion from welfare spending. Here's what it could mean for benefits
Reform UK

Reform wants to slash £50 billion from welfare spending. Here's what it could mean for benefits

Inside the Big Issue: Amelia Dimoldenberg's opportunity issue
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Amelia Dimoldenberg's opportunity issue

Heatwaves hit Big Issue vendors' sales: 'Selling in the hot weather can be the worst time'
Jason Sallis, who sells the Big Issue in Moorgate, has been struggling in the heat. Photo credit: Louise Haywood-Schiefer
News

Heatwaves hit Big Issue vendors' sales: 'Selling in the hot weather can be the worst time'

How James Ellis Ford made a solo album in his hospital bed while suffering from leukaemia
James Ellis Ford in his home studio
Music

How James Ellis Ford made a solo album in his hospital bed while suffering from leukaemia

Migrants are twice as likely to work nights than Brits. The care system would collapse without them
A clock with a moon and clouds to illustrate night carers
Essay

Migrants are twice as likely to work nights than Brits. The care system would collapse without them

'I’m a single mum. Summer school holidays mean a bigger food bill'
Food bajnk user Kylie at Weaver's Adventure playground
Food

'I’m a single mum. Summer school holidays mean a bigger food bill'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'I'm a 21-year-old relying on disability benefits to live. Young disabled people feel deserted'
benefit claimant Kat Blackwood
Benefits

'I'm a 21-year-old relying on disability benefits to live. Young disabled people feel deserted'

Why do people live 14 years longer at one end of Leeds' famous Otley Run pub crawl than the other?
people on the Otley Run in Leeds
Health inequality

Why do people live 14 years longer at one end of Leeds' famous Otley Run pub crawl than the other?

Burnham says carers should be 'the best paid people in society'. Here's how much they actually earn
Prime minister Andy Burnham meets a woman in a visit to Jewish Care in Golders Green
social care

Burnham says carers should be 'the best paid people in society'. Here's how much they actually earn

Sir Chris Hoy: 'If exercise was in pill form, it would be hailed as a miracle drug'
Sir Chris Hoy
Sport

Sir Chris Hoy: 'If exercise was in pill form, it would be hailed as a miracle drug'