Animal lab challenged
Two animal welfare groups are challenging the government's backing of a £32m research laboratory which will use monkeys in research on Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other incurable diseases.
Health check
Bedside Stories, Michael Foxton's account of life as a junior doctor, makes Phil Whitaker chuckle
Pull yourself together!
Blake Morrison is not impressed by Frank Furedi's Therapy Culture, a critique of the modern world that harks back to a supposed 'golden age' of the stiff upper lip
UK drug firms accused of failing NHS
Thinktank calls for research to focus more on patients' needs.