Call to regulate gender-bending chemicals

Scientists press for urgent curb on endocrine disrupters.

Chips face the chop as schools get healthy

Chips should not be served to pupils more than once a week and salt must be banished from their tables.

Could cockroaches hold key to mysteries of women’s fertility?

Proving it could be more help than pest, the cockroach could hold the answer to increased fertility problems in women who put off having children, scientists announced today.

Trainee midwives win maternity pay

Three trainee midwives have won a landmark sex discrimination case establishing rights to maternity pay for thousands of women studying to join the NHS professions.