Heart disease: US doctors back statins for 8-year-olds
Experts in UK, treating small numbers of high risk children, say wider use of drugs should be discussed
Minister calls for lunchtime lock-in at schools to stop rush for chippie
Shocking new research into schoolchildren's lunch habits adds to concerns over obesity
Experts want sex education from age four to cut teen pregnancies
Charities said children should be taught the names of body parts and about sex and relationships
Give four-year-olds sex education, say charities
Two leading sexual health charities are calling for children as young as four to be given compulsory sex education
Nutrition: High level of fat and salt in fun park food, says report
Children on school outings offered meals with 'overwhelmingly' high levels of fat, salt and sugar, report says
Diet: Women warned that junk food in pregnancy may hit child’s health
Researchers say experiment on rats applies to humans, and mother's bad diet can lead to overweight offspring
The Well Baby Clinic is aptly named. If there’s anything wrong with your child they can’t do a thing to help
Zoe Williams: These clinics don't really do anything apart from make babies cry by taking all their clothes off and putting them in grocer's scales
School sex clinics fuel debate on promiscuity
29% of secondary schools in England have sexual health clinics with one in 20 providing children with contraceptives without parental knowledge
It’s not just boys who are autistic
When it was first discovered more than 60 years ago, Asperger's syndrome was thought to be a male-only condition. But now that more and more girls are being diagnosed with it, why do we hear so little about them, wonders Joanna Moorhead
Sex education ‘should teach about infertility’
New head of HFEA concerned that few young people appreciate the growing problem of infertility