Deadly disease heads for California

The West Nile virus (WNV) epidemic is growing as it continues its march westwards across the US, public-health experts announced this week.

The alternative professor

Sarah Boseley meets the world-class scientist who turned his back on the Viennese medical elite to become the UK's first (and only) professor of complementary medicine.

Vital steps to combat a big problem

Commentary: There are many reasons why schoolchildren are becoming fatter, less fit and less active.

Britain’s battle of the bulge

Overfed, under-exercised and too dependent on the car - our schoolchildren are staring at a lifetime of flab, write Mark Townsend and Denis Campbell

John Sutherland

The London Foot Hospital is in danger of being closed down. So who then will save our soles?

Diet of fish ‘can prevent’ teen violence

New study reveals that the root cause of crime may be biological, not social.