Fat road to perdition
The death of an overweight 3-year-old opened the doors to a wave of simplistic hysteria about obesity, writes Vivienne Parry.
Brain warning over chemicals
Child development 'at risk from flame retardants'.
Exposed: conman’s role in prayer-power IVF ‘miracle’
One of the authors of a university report on infertility has admitted a multi-million-dollar fraud, reports Paul Harris in New York.
Men get breast cancer too
And a new study shows that the incidence is rising, says Joanna Moorhead.
Investment in life
The world's first stem cell bank is now open. Stephen Minger is proud to be a contributor.
Black Death blamed on man, not rats
A new analysis of more than 100 plague epidemics which swept Europe for hundreds of years concludes that it was not spread by rodents running between villages and towns but by man himself.