Surviving freshers’ flu: student health questions answered

Our health expert answers your questions on everything from freshers' flu and hangovers to diet and STDs

Omega-3 may help struggling children to read, says study

Children whose reading skills were in the lowest fifth of the normal range improved over the four months of the study

'Sometimes, as I patrol the room, I look down and witness a disaster in the making, with lots of crossings-out'

Emotional labour requires workers to display certain emotions as part of their job, but are academics aware, equipped and supported to do so?

A new survey suggests that fewer students are practising safe sex than at this time last year. Oliver Brann analyses the results

• Many students are critical of sex education at school• A quarter want sexual health information on campus

Tom Kirkwood, an expert on ageing, has produced research that suggests the 85-plus generation are much happier than perceived

You think you have no time to cook. But eating well in the run-up to exams could boost your grades

University counselling services are the first port of call for students in the grip of anxiety or depression – but will they survive funding cuts?

Recreational drugs have mutated from mood-enhancing to bladder-destroying. And no one seems to care