All the colours of the spectrum

Adam Feinstein assesses five very different views of autism, a condition that affects many people today.

Healthy eating is an acquired taste

To prevent the problem of obesity education, not coercion, is surely the answer.

University is not usually synonymous with gastronomic heaven - but if you learn to cook, it can nourish body and soul.

Special tactics are needed in many schools to ensure it isn't only boys who think exercise can be fun. By Julian Gibbs.

It's not easy deciding when someone is or isn't a person. John Crace meets the latest professor to try.

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Medical students need corpses, so crisis looms as fewer of us are willing to hand over our last remains. Donald MacLeod reports.