A victim of its own success
Aspirin's ability not just to kill pain, but to prevent heart attacks and cancer too, is putting new research on its potential uses in danger, writes Diarmuid Jeffreys.
A matter of life and death
Scientists hope that by injecting human embryo stem cells into the brain, they will be able to cure Parkinson's disease. But is such radical treatment worth the risk? Vivienne Parry reports on the extreme side of medicine.
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Harvard can now assess your health risks via the internet.
The time of your life
Your body clock is ticking, and scientists now understand its workings better. Ian Sample finds out how this knowledge could usher in a medical revolution.
Secrecy on origins ‘does no harm’
Couples who have a baby born from a donated embryo are much less likely than those who adopt to tell the child the truth about its origins, but the secrecy does them no harm, according to a new study.
Food defect could make thousands mentally ill
Factory farming has denied us chemicals in our diet that are vital to brain development, warn scientists.