Health – The Mint Magazine

Deprived Areas Have 70% More Vape Shops, Bookies and Takeaways

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:51:34 +0000

Deprived high streets in England are populated by 70% more vape shops, bookmakers, takeaways and off-licences than in wealthier areas, a new study has found. Poorer areas also have far …

Not broken, just wrong

Henry Leveson-Gower — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:29 +0000

Nutrition expert, Stuart Gillespie, tells The Mint the food system is killing more people than hunger ever did and radical change is needed to end the carnage. In his book, …

How Trump’s Big Ag bailout is alienating his MAHA base

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:16:43 +0000

At a White House roundtable last Monday, president Donald Trump, alongside Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and a handful of other leaders in the government, announced a $12 billion farm aid …

Trump admin claims win as UK bows to pressure on NHS drug spending

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:20:14 +0000

LONDON — The U.K. has agreed to raise how much its National Health Service spends on new drugs, in a concession made under pressure from the Trump administration in return …

In Milei’s Argentina, austerity economics manifests as a mental health crisis

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:14:31 +0000

In her nine years at the Laura Bonaparte national mental health hospital in Buenos Aires City, Julieta Chevallier has seen suffering widen and deepen. “When people finally come to see …

Taiwan battles low birth rate with new family subsidies

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:58:23 +0000

Taiwan has announced that it is fighting back against low population growth with a new subsidy programme to encourage families to have more children. Taiwan’s cabinet on Thursday approved standardised …

Colorado now requires health warning labels on gas stoves

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:37:32 +0000

Mounting evidence shows that gas stoves — used in nearly 40% of U.S. homes — pose serious health risks. Now, Coloradans have a new tool to learn about the dangers of cooking with little …

As Thailand does U-turn on legal cannabis, businesses scramble to survive

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 12:27:18 +0000

Bangkok, Thailand – Even at the Nana intersection, a pulsating mecca of this megacity’s seamy nightlife scene, the Wonderland cannabis shop is hard to miss. Its sprawling, ruby-pink signboard screams across …

In surprise move Wegovy-maker Novo Nordisk ousts CEO amid sagging sales

Henry Leveson-Gower — Sun, 18 May 2025 19:44:22 +0000

Wegovy-maker Novo Nordisk has pushed out CEO Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen over concerns the company is losing its first-mover advantage in the highly competitive obesity drug market. Novo Nordisk announced …

A care in the world

Henry Leveson-Gower — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:17:26 +0000

While the term care economy is arguably an oxymoron, Tim Jackson, best-selling author of Prosperity without Growth and renowned ecological economist, is exploring what an economy that had care at …