Pupils to be given free use of private gyms and swimming pools

Schoolchildren will get free use of private gyms and fitness lessons with personal trainers in a new drive to tackle the growing problem of obesity.

Whitehall played down wartime scurvy reports

Doctors blamed food rationing for illness.

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.