A history of unsatisfactory diagnoses
Nicholas Lezard finds Roy Porter's Madness a fascinating and useful assessment of the causes and treatment of mental illness
The cancer revolution
When Sarah Allen, a mother of four, discovered she had a virulent form of breast cancer, she feared for her future. Two years on, she is the symbol of a biotechnological success that promises to change for ever our treatment of disease. Jo Revill reports.
Scottish microbes may take on superbugs
An Edinburgh-based company just given £50,000 to scour the Scottish tidal pools may have found a new weapon against hospital superbugs.
Chemical threats to boys’ sex health investigated
Science advisers urge wide-ranging review of how lifestyles affect fertility.
Coming soon: health inventions that could change our lives
From the clever spectacles that remember for you to the supermarket smartcard that stops you buying fatty food, a brief guide to the health gadgets of the future.