Teen mags and soap operas to teach about sex

Teachers wrestling unsuccessfully with a banana and a condom are being replaced in some schools by teen magazines and TV dramas such as Footballers' Wives in a bid to demystify sex and relationships. By Lucy Ward.

Medical research ‘stifled by rules’

A 'catastrophic' increase in bureaucracy from new European regulations has slowed the pace of medical research in the UK and will make academics reliant on funding from the pharmaceutical industry, researchers have warned.

‘I don’t know how it works’

Dr Huang Hongyun cultivates the cells of aborted foetuses and injects them into the brains and spines of his patients. His method is controversial, but his results have led hundreds of westerners to his Beijing surgery. Jonathan Watts was given unprecedented access to the doctor and his patients.

Sir John Vane

Obituary: Nobel prizewinning pharmacologist whose work revealed the life-saving benefits of a daily aspirin.

Light at the end of the tunnel …

Unlocking the human genome opened a door to ending disease, scientists claimed four years ago. David Adam asks what, if any, progress has been made so far.