From the archives: Minister warns smokers over cancer risk
8 May 1956: The Minister of Health announces the first 'incontrovertible association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer'
Tony Smith
Obituary: Hugely prolific and fluent writer of medical journalism
Sheep’s head broth? Lovely
Review: The credit crunch has sparked a boom in thrift-lit, discovers Carole Cadwalladr, nowhere more so than in cunning ways to serve up leftovers
Gloom, not doom
A Field Guide to Melancholy by Jacky BowringSadness is good for you, finds Ian Pindar
The birthday present
When her husband turned 40, Charla Muller offered him guaranteed sex every night for a whole year. Could they manage it? By Stuart Jeffries
Public Inquiry
Paul Gilbert is an author and professor of clinical psychology
The bedsit epiphany
Eckhart Tolle, Oprah Winfrey's favourite guru, has sold more books than almost any other spiritual author. So what's his Easter message?
Our flexible friend
Evidence of the brain's plasticity could benefit those suffering anything from a stroke to relationship problems. Ian Sample reports
All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell
Novel is admirable in its attempts to show how mental illness can afflict apparently stable people, says Oliver Marre
Voyage around my brother
Review: The Music Room by William FiennesJohn Burnside on a thoughtful and lyrical account of an extraordinary childhood