Doctors to climb Everest – and get out the exercise bikes
Experiments in mountain's 'death zone' could create a piece of medical history.
‘We should be doing five hours of sport a week’
Children are to be given pedometers and personal trainers as part of the government's latest health drive, which will also see more sport and healthy vending machines in schools. But what do the kids think? Joanna Moorhead finds out.
School medicals are back to fight obesity
Pilot scheme will advise parents on diet to get pupils fit.
Children at centre of drive for fitter nation
Pupils to get pedometers, healthy vending machines, more sport - and personal trainers.
From the cells up
Engineers of the future will swap their computers and spanners for viruses and DNA. Alok Jha introduces a brand-new science: biological engineering.
Warning: food can make you fat
Lucy Mangan is glutted with dietary advice from Carole Caplin, Mireille Guiliano and Nigel Denby.
Cashing in on your genes
The fashion for genetic testing via the internet is more about using the power of suggestion to turn a profit than about inherited abilities, writes Vivienne Parry.