Deadly disease heads for California

The West Nile virus (WNV) epidemic is growing as it continues its march westwards across the US, public-health experts announced this week.

The alternative professor

Sarah Boseley meets the world-class scientist who turned his back on the Viennese medical elite to become the UK's first (and only) professor of complementary medicine.

John Sutherland

The London Foot Hospital is in danger of being closed down. So who then will save our soles?

Snatch squad

Joanna Briscoe on The Story of V, a comprehensive investigation into the history, culture and power of female genitalia by Catherine Blackledge