Mind the gap

Charlotte Moore: Inclusion in the mainstream is the new mantra. But autism is more than a learning difficulty, it's a way of being.

My life as a cyborg

Three months after having an electronic device implanted into his brain to control the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease, David Beresford reports on his progress.

The chips are down

With 300,000 children now suffering from obesity, shouldn't schools be doing something to help? Hilly Janes reports on efforts to give pupils the right food - and the right messages.

Rupert Billingham

Pioneering scientist who made key discoveries that led to successful human organ transplants.

Bad medicine

Homeopathy is based on a 300-year-old mistake and magnetic therapy is simply fraudulent. As for oxygen-fortified drinks ... Christopher Wanjek debunks some popular medical myths.

Carry on up the colon

John Sutherland: The man who won a Nobel prize for economics by sticking telescopic tubes up people's bottoms.